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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 26, 2000, 6:55 PM CST for LeFlore County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report 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, 6:55 PM CST (00:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2000, 7:45 PM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County LeFlore County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 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
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, 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, 6:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 28 min |
| Mar 26, 6:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 35 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.