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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 26, 2000, 4:38 PM CST for McIntosh County, Muskogee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 52 min. 3 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
- Mar 26, 2000, 4:38 PM CST (22:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2000, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 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 26, 4:44 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Texanna, OK | Emergency management relayed several reports of a brief tornado touchdown over Lake Eufaula just to the east of Texanna. No damage was reported. |
| Mar 26, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Porum, OK | The public reported a brief tornado touchdown near Porum. No damage was reported. |
| Mar 26, 5:13 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Porum, 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 26, 2:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KTSA 262239 RRA TORTUL OKC091-101-262330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 438 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN MUSKOGEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA EASTERN MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 530 PM CST * AT 438 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF PORUM. MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH...THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... PORUM AND BRIARTOWN 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 3548 9545 3537 9548 3528 9522 3546 9510
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, 4:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 37 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 | 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 |
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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.