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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 26, 2000Tulsa County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 26, 2000, 4:08 PM CST for Tulsa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 37 min. 5 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 26, 2000, 4:08 PM CST (22:08 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 2000, 4:45 PM CST
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Tulsa County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 26, 4:16 PM CST	Hail 1.75	Tulsa, OK	Golfball size hail fell at the Channel 6 studios near downtown Tulsa.
Mar 26, 4:25 PM CST	Hail 1	Jenks, OK	Quarter size hail was reported at Riverside Airport.
Mar 26, 4:30 PM CST	Hail 2.5	Tulsa, OK	Tennis ball size hail was reported by an off duty National Weather Service employee near 101st street and Sheridan Avenue. This hail was part of a large swath of large hail which fell from downtown Tulsa through western and southern parts of the city of Tulsa
Mar 26, 4:40 PM CST	Hail 0.88	Bixby, OK
Mar 26, 4:40 PM CST	Tornado F0	Leonard, OK	A spotter reported a brief tornado touchdown just north of Leonard near the intersection of Highway 64 and Snake Creek. 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 26, 2:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 739 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1455 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KTSA 262209
TORTUL
OKC143-262245-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
408 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  TULSA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 445 PM CST

* AT 408 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO JUST 
SOUTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN TULSA. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING 
SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BROKEN ARROW 
AND TULSA

MOTORISTS IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM SHOULD ABANDON VEHICLES
FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER! TAKE COVER IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING.
AS A LAST RESORT...TAKE COVER IN A DITCH OR CULVERT. PROTECT YOUR
HEAD AND BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS!

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!

LAT...LON 3624 9600 3613 9611 3588 9579 3606 9576

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 26, 9:36 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	54 min
Mar 26, 11:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	34 min
Mar 26, 3:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	52 min
Mar 26, 3:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers	49 min
Mar 26, 3:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Tulsa	39 min
Mar 26, 3:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh	51 min
Mar 26, 4:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	56 min
Mar 26, 4:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes	42 min
Mar 26, 4:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	43 min
Mar 26, 4:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Tulsa	37 min
Mar 26, 4:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	52 min
Mar 26, 4:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner	37 min
Mar 26, 4:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	49 min
Mar 26, 4:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	42 min
Mar 26, 4:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee	53 min
Mar 26, 4:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Haskell	52 min
Mar 26, 5:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Wagoner	47 min
Mar 26, 5:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh	47 min
Mar 26, 5:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Sequoyah	39 min
Mar 26, 5:25 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Sequoyah	50 min
Mar 26, 5:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	52 min
Mar 26, 5:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	77 min
Mar 26, 5:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Haskell	45 min
Mar 26, 5:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	41 min
Mar 26, 5:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Muskogee	49 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.