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Tornado Warning 33, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 24, 2000Craig County, Delaware County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2000, 7:51 PM CDT for Craig County, Delaware County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 64 min. 8 reports 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: May 24, 2000, 7:51 PM CDT (00:51 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2000, 8:55 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 24, 7:53 PM CDT	Hail 1	Vinita, OK
May 24, 8:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Bernice, OK
May 24, 8:09 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 58 E	Vinita, OK
May 24, 8:10 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Vinita, OK
May 24, 8:24 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Grove, OK	A tornado touched down briefly just east of Grove. No damage was reported.
May 24, 8:35 PM CDT	Hail 1	Vinita, OK
May 24, 8:40 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Vinita, OK
May 24, 8:42 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Jay, OK

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
May 24, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 113 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: 606 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -255 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1901 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 318 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

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The text

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

339 
WFUS54 KTSA 250052
TORTUL
OKC035-041-250155-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
751 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CRAIG COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA
  DELAWARE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 855 PM CDT

* AT 750 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO JUST
SOUTH OF VINITA...AND ANOTHER DEVELOPING 10 MILES WEST OF HOLLOW.

VINITA AND HOLLOW ARE IN TH PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM.

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

DRM

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Washington	60 min
May 24, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Ottawa	65 min
May 24, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig	37 min
May 24, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	35 min
May 24, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware	53 min
May 24, 9:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Mayes	26 min
May 24, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	46 min
May 24, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	56 min
May 24, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	54 min
May 24, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	49 min
May 24, 10:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Creek	24 min
May 24, 10:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	52 min
May 24, 11:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	45 min
May 24, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	59 min
May 24, 11:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Creek	31 min
May 24, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	46 min
May 24, 11:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers, Washington	42 min
May 24, 11:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	42 min
May 25, 12:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	44 min
May 25, 12:48 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	2 hr
May 25, 1:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	52 min
May 25, 2:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Sequoyah	52 min
May 25, 2:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	59 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.