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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 7, 2000, 10:20 PM CST for Nowata County, Rogers County, Washington County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 40 min. 7 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, 10:20 PM CST (04:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2000, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Nowata County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:22 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, 10:23 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Vera, OK | |
| Mar 7, 10:25 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Vera, OK | A tornado touched down for a couple minutes and caused intermittent tree damage for about a mile north of Vera. |
| Mar 7, 10:27 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Vera, OK | |
| Mar 7, 10:34 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Collinsville, OK | |
| Mar 7, 10:37 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Talala, OK | A tornado briefly touched down just south of Talala near Oologah Lake damaging the roofs of a few outbuildings and some trees. |
| Mar 7, 10:47 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Nowata, OK | |
| Mar 7, 11:05 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Inola, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2005 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KTSA 080422 TORTUL OKC105-131-147-080500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1020 PM CST TUE MAR 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN NOWATA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA NORTHWESTERN ROGERS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 1100 PM CST * AT 1020 PM CST STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VERA. RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADIC STORM MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... RAMONA... VERA...TALALA...WATOVA...DELAWARE AND NOWATA LARGE HAIL WILL ALSO OCCUR WITH THIS STORM ACROSS OTHER PORTIONS OF WASHINGTON AND NOWATA COUNTIES. A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND! TAKE COVER IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM! 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! DRM
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, 9:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Tulsa | 42 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, 10:27 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.