Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 7, 2000, 9:48 PM CST for Creek County, Osage County, Tulsa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 42 min. 3 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
- Mar 7, 2000, 9:48 PM CST (03:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2000, 10:30 PM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Creek County, OK, Osage County, OK, Tulsa County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 9:50 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Mannford, OK | Thunderstorm winds blew a car off the road near Mannford. The winds also broke windows in at least one house. |
| Mar 7, 10:10 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Sperry, OK | A tornado briefly touched down just north of Sperry. The only damage was to trees. |
| Mar 7, 10:10 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Skiatook, OK | An amateur radio operator reported a tornado 3 miles west of Highway 75 at 126th Street North.The tornado likely just touched down briefly and no damage was reported. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 588 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 838 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KTSA 080349 TORTUL OKC037-113-143-080430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 948 PM CST TUE MAR 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN CREEK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA SOUTHEASTERN OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA WESTERN AND NORTHERN TULSA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 1030 PM CST * AT 948 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER MANNFORD. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... MANNFORD... COLLINSVILLE...SKIATOOK...SPERRY AND SAND SPRINGS 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! IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW!
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 8:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 56 min |
| Mar 7, 9:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 61 min |
| Mar 7, 9:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 66 min |
| Mar 7, 9:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 37 min |
| Mar 7, 10:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 49 min |
| Mar 7, 10:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers, Washington | 40 min |
| Mar 7, 10:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner | 63 min |
| Mar 7, 10:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner | 64 min |
| Mar 7, 10:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 64 min |
| Mar 7, 10:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers | 31 min |
| Mar 7, 11:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee | 47 min |
| Mar 7, 11:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 45 min |
| Mar 7, 11:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Ottawa | 61 min |
| Mar 8, 12:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 39 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.