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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 7, 2000McIntosh County, Muskogee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 7, 2000, 11:13 PM CST for McIntosh County, Muskogee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 47 min. 2 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, 11:13 PM CST (05:13 UTC)
Expired: Mar 8, 2000, 12:00 AM CST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:13 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, 11:22 PM CST	Hail 0.88	Muskogee, OK
Mar 7, 11:24 PM CST	Hail 1	Summit, 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, 10:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 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.

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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KTSA 080514
TORTUL
OKC091-101-080600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1113 PM CST TUE MAR 7 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  MUSKOGEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA   
  NORTHEASTERN MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST

* AT 1113 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG
  ROTATION 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHECOTAH. MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH...
  THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...  WEBBERS
  FALLS...BRAGGS...KEEFETON...OKTAHA...WARNER...RENTIESVILLE AND
  CHECOTAH

STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF 
HIGHWAY 69 AND INTERSTATE 40.

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!
X
$$

LAT...LON 3557 9560 3545 9557 3549 9511 3573 9514

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, 10:20 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, 11:30 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

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.