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Tornado Warning 41, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 4, 2000Osage County, Washington County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2000, 8:08 PM CDT for Osage County, Washington County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 52 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: Jun 4, 2000, 8:08 PM CDT (01:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 52 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, 8:25 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Ramona, OK	Television storm chasers reported a brief tornado touchdown near Ramona. 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 nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 189 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: 1031 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1079 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KTSA 050110
TORTUL
OKC113-147-050200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  EASTERN OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 808 PM CDT STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED TWO WALL CLOUDS WITHIN 
  STORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES EAST OF BARTLESVILLE TO 
  TO 8 MILES WEST OF WYNONA...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH.  THE WALL 
  CLOUDS WERE LOCATED JUST NORTH OF BARTLESVILLE AND NEAR WYNONA.

* LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE OCHELATA...
  RAMONA...BARTLESVILLE...BARNSDALL...WYNONA...AVANT AND HOMINY

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

LAT...LON 3674 9583 3675 9600 3654 9653 3646 9646
          3641 9642 3642 9603 3647 9582

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 7:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage, Washington	42 min
Jun 4, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Ottawa	61 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

Nearby

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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.