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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 26, 2000LeFlore County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 26, 2000, 6:32 PM CST for LeFlore County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 28 min. 4 reports 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, 6:32 PM CST (00:32 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 2000, 7:00 PM CST
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County LeFlore County, OK

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 26, 6:39 PM CST	Hail 1.75	Wister, OK
Mar 26, 6:45 PM CST	Tornado F2	Hodgen, OK	A tornado touched down 1.5 miles northwest of Hodgen and moved southeast passing near the town of Hodgen before lifting 2 miles southeast of Hodgen. Three mobile homes were destroyed and as many as eight others were damaged. In addition, two broiler houses w
Mar 26, 6:48 PM CST	Hail 1.75	Heavener, OK
Mar 26, 7:00 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Heavener, OK	Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines and trees.

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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 232 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 60 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -169 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1328 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 349 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 363 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KTSA 270034
TORTUL
OKC079-270100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
632 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL LE FLORE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 700 PM CST

* AT 632 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH
  STRONG   ROTATION 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF WISTER.  MOVING SOUTHEAST   
  AT 35 MPH...THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY    
  TIME.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...  WISTER...
  HOWE AND HEAVENER

IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
STRAIGHT LINE WINDSI CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. GO TO A SAFE
PLACE NOW!

LAT...LON 3507 9475 3498 9485 3466 9448 3483 9431

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, 6:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	46 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

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.