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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 26, 2000Choctaw County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 26, 2000, 7:52 PM CST for Choctaw County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 53 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, 7:52 PM CST (01:52 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 2000, 8:45 PM CST
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Choctaw County, OK

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 26, 7:55 PM CST	Tornado F0	Rattan, OK	A tornado briefly touched down near Rattan. Emergency management reported only tree damage with this tornado.
Mar 26, 8:00 PM CST	Hail 1	Rattan, OK
Mar 26, 8:05 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Ft Towson, OK
Mar 26, 8:05 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Ft Towson, OK	Thunderstorm winds blew trees down onto power lines.

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
Mar 26, 7:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 224 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KTSA 270153
TORTUL
OKC023-270245-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
752 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  EASTERN CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 845 PM CST

* AT 752 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG
  ROTATION 11 MILES NORTH OF SAWYER. MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH...
  THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...  FORT TOWSON
  AND SAWYER

NIGHTTIME TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS - TAKE COVER NOW! IF YOU
WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A
SAFE PLACE!

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 3425 9537 3419 9545 3388 9539 3406 9515



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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, 6:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	LeFlore	50 min
Mar 26, 7:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	53 min
Mar 26, 7:55 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.