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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 4, 2000Osage County, Washington County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2000, 7:33 PM CDT for Osage County, Washington County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 42 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: Jun 4, 2000, 7:33 PM CDT (00:33 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2000, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Osage County, OK, Washington County, OK

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 4, 7:54 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Dewey, OK
Jun 4, 8:01 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Bartlesville, 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 nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 206 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: 497 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1456 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KTSA 050034
TORTUL
OKC113-147-050115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
733 PM CDT SUN JUN 4 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  NORTHEASTERN OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 730 PM CDT KANSAS LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A TORNADO
  AND FUNNEL CLOUDS IN FAR SOUTHEASTERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY KANSAS. 
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED ALONG A LINE FROM 3 MILES NORTHWEST 
  OF BIGHEART TO 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF COPAN TO 6 MILES EAST OF 
  COPAN...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE COPAN...DEWEY...
  BARTLESVILLE...HULAH...BIGHEART AND OKESA


CALL 1-800-722-2778 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3689 9635 3696 9593 3692 9578 3668 9586
          3669 9612 3667 9643

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Ottawa	61 min
Jun 4, 8:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage, Washington	52 min
Jun 4, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Mayes	61 min
Jun 4, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	46 min
Jun 4, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers	56 min
Jun 4, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Wagoner	53 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.