Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 26, 2000, 4:38 PM CST for Tulsa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 37 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 2000, 4:38 PM CST (22:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2000, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tulsa County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 4:40 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Bixby, OK | |
| Mar 26, 4:40 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Leonard, OK | A spotter reported a brief tornado touchdown just north of Leonard near the intersection of Highway 64 and Snake Creek. No damage was reported. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 2:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 166 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 739 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1455 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 9:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 54 min |
| Mar 26, 11:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 34 min |
| Mar 26, 3:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 52 min |
| Mar 26, 3:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes, Rogers | 49 min |
| Mar 26, 3:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Tulsa | 39 min |
| Mar 26, 3:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 51 min |
| Mar 26, 4:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 56 min |
| Mar 26, 4:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 37 min |
| Mar 26, 4:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes | 42 min |
| Mar 26, 4:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 43 min |
| Mar 26, 4:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee | 52 min |
| Mar 26, 4:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner | 37 min |
| Mar 26, 4:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 49 min |
| Mar 26, 4:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 42 min |
| Mar 26, 4:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 53 min |
| Mar 26, 4:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell | 52 min |
| Mar 26, 5:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Wagoner | 47 min |
| Mar 26, 5:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 47 min |
| Mar 26, 5:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Sequoyah | 39 min |
| Mar 26, 5:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Adair, Sequoyah | 50 min |
| Mar 26, 5:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 52 min |
| Mar 26, 5:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 77 min |
| Mar 26, 5:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell | 45 min |
| Mar 26, 5:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 41 min |
| Mar 26, 5:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Muskogee | 49 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.