Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 26, 2000, 6:29 PM CST for Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 2000, 6:29 PM CST (00:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2000, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Pittsburg County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 6:30 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Haywood, OK | Thunderstorm winds destroyed two barns and blew several trees down. |
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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 765 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1975 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KTSA 270028 TORTUL OKC121-270115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 629 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN PITTSBURG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 715 PM CST * AT 628 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF SAVANNA. OTHER STORMS WITH STRONG ROTATION WERE LOCATED 4 MILES NORTH OF HAYWOOD AND 3 MILES WEST OF HAYWOOD. ALL OF THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THESE DANGEROUS STORMS COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... KREBS... ALDERSON...HAYWOOD...HARTSHORNE...SAVANNA...BLANCO AND MCALESTER IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW! LAT...LON 3499 9589 3484 9602 3458 9559 3487 9551
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 6:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 57 min |
| Mar 26, 6:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell, Muskogee | 32 min |
| Mar 26, 6:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 28 min |
| Mar 26, 6:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 35 min |
| Mar 26, 6:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 50 min |
| Mar 26, 7:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 53 min |
| Mar 26, 7:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 53 min |
| Mar 26, 7:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Pushmataha | 50 min |
| Mar 26, 9:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 38 min |
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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.