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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2000, 11:00 PM CDT for Okfuskee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report 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
- May 24, 2000, 11:00 PM CDT (04:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2000, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Okfuskee County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:03 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, 11:08 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Welty, 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 4553 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1645 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 20.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
604 WFUS54 KTSA 250401 TORTUL OKC107-250445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1100 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN OKFUSKEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 1145 PM CDT * AT 1100 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF WELTY. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... WELTY... BOLEY AND PADEN IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...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 THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE NEAR ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...VIOLENT STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AND POSSIBLY A TORNADO. IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE TAKE COVER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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 CALL 1-800-722-2778 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3580 9646 3577 9667 3542 9659 3551 9627
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, 9:04 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, 11:01 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.