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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2000, 9:04 PM CDT for Mayes County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2000, 9:04 PM CDT (02:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Mayes County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:04 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
976 WFUS54 KTSA 250205 TORTUL OKC097-250230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 904 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN MAYES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 904 PM CDT STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO OVER LOCUST GROVE. RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADIC STORM MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... SALINA AND LOCUST GROVE A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT. CALL 1-800-722-2778 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3630 9526 3612 9526 3610 9507 3629 9502
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, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware | 64 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, 9:44 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.