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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 2000, 2:38 PM CDT for Latimer County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 52 min. 2 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, 2:38 PM CDT (19:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2000, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Latimer County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 186 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.
721 WFUS54 KTSA 231941 TORTUL OKC077-232030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 238 PM CDT SUN APR 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LATIMER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 330 PM CDT * AT 238 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO...7 MILES NORTH OF HIGGINS. RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADIC STORM MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE EAST ALONG HIGHWAY 270 AND MAY MOVE INTO THE ROBBERS CAVE STATE PARK AREA. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...DAMON... HIGGINS AND WILBURTON. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW 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 CALL 1-800-722-2778 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3490 9560 3478 9545 3496 9508 3506 9524
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, 2:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg | 35 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, 2:40 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.