Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 24, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 2000, 2:10 PM CDT for Latimer County, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 35 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
- Apr 23, 2000, 2:10 PM CDT (19:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2000, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Latimer County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 2:22 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Hartshorne, OK | An F1 tornado touched down north of Hartshorne and lifted 2 miles later northeast of Hartshorne.The tornado destroyed five mobile homes and a frame house. The roofs of four other homes were damaged. The tornado also uprooted large trees and downed power line |
| Apr 23, 2:36 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Wilburton, OK | |
| Apr 23, 2:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilburton, OK | Thunderstorm winds blew several trees down. |
| Apr 23, 2:46 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Wilburton, OK | Baseball size hail fell and damaged several cars and roofs. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -265 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1004 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 340 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 352 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
678 WFUS54 KTSA 231911 TORTUL OKC077-121-231945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 210 PM CDT SUN APR 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LATIMER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA EASTERN PITTSBURG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 245 PM CDT * AT 210 PM CDT THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE EAST SIDE OF MCALESTER. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADIC STORM MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... HARTSHORNE AND WILBURTON IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER NOW IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS MOTORISTS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD ABANDON VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER DO NOT TAKE SHELTER UNDER HIGHWAY OVERPASSES TAKE COVER IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...TAKE COVER IN A DITCH OR CULVERT. PROTECT YOUR HEAD AND BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS CALL 1-800-722-2778 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3499 9571 3481 9566 3488 9522 3510 9529
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 1:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 47 min |
| Apr 23, 1:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 43 min |
| Apr 23, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 49 min |
| Apr 23, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 45 min |
| Apr 23, 2:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pushmataha | 47 min |
| Apr 23, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 45 min |
| Apr 23, 2:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 38 min |
| Apr 23, 2:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 37 min |
| Apr 23, 2:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Latimer | 52 min |
| Apr 23, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 50 min |
| Apr 23, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 61 min |
| Apr 23, 2:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 48 min |
| Apr 23, 3:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 56 min |
| Apr 23, 3:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Latimer | 32 min |
| Apr 23, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 61 min |
| Apr 23, 3:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 48 min |
| Apr 23, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 50 min |
| Apr 23, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 58 min |
| Apr 23, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 42 min |
| Apr 23, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Sequoyah | 57 min |
| Apr 23, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 64 min |
| Apr 23, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 50 min |
| Apr 23, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okmulgee | 48 min |
| Apr 23, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 45 min |
| Apr 23, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington | 40 min |
| Apr 23, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 63 min |
| Apr 23, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa | 50 min |
| Apr 23, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 49 min |
| Apr 23, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 57 min |
| Apr 23, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 39 min |
| Apr 23, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 58 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.