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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 285, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 29, 2001Muskogee County, Wagoner County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2001, 4:15 AM CDT for Muskogee County, Wagoner County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 60 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 29, 2001, 4:15 AM CDT (09:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2001, 5:15 AM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Muskogee County, OK, Wagoner County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:17 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 29, 4:17 AM CDTHail 1Coweta, 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 nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 181 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2001-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 241 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2001-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 134 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
241 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-416 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1721 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
390 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KTSA 290916
SVRTUL
OKC101-145-291015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
415 AM CDT FRI JUN 29 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN MUSKOGEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
  WESTERN WAGONER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 515 AM CDT

* AT 415 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF COWETA...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...HASKELL...  
TAFT...BOYNTON...PORTER AND TULLAHASSEE.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED 
IN THE WARNED AREA.

LAT...LON 3603 9552 3598 9574 3561 9570 3568 9533

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 29, 3:35 AM CDT, 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 3:35 AM CDT, 40 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
335 AM CDT FRI JUN 29 2001

FORECAST HINGES ON WHAT BECOMES OF UPPER LOW SEEN SPINNING OVER
SOUTHERN MISSOURI IN WATOR VAPOR IMAGERY.  CONCENSUS OF ETA AND AVN
IS THAT IT WILL STAY OVER SOUTHERN MISSOURI THROUGH THIS EVENING.
THEN IT WILL ELONGATE AND PIVOT AND RUN FROM SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA INTO
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI BY SATURDAY EVENING.  FROM THERE THE ETA AND AVN
DIVERGE WITH THE ETA TAKING IT SLIGHTLY EAST AND SHEARING IT OUT
WHILE THE AVN KEEPS IT OVER THE AREA AND THEN SHOVES IT WEST SUNDAY
NIGHT.  ALL IN ALL EXPECT A DECENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA UNTIL SUNDAY AND THEN THINK WILL HAVE A
BREAK IN THE RAIN CHANCES MONDAY AND TUESDAY.

AT THIS TIME HAVE SCATTERED TSRA WITH ONE OCCASIONALLY BECOMING
SEVERE.  I GOT HAILED ON ON THE WAY TO WORK AND WOULD NOT BE
SURPRISED IF IT HAPPENS AGAIN TONIGHT.  BULK OF ACTIVITY YESTERDAY
AND THIS MORNING HAS BEEN TO THE SOUTHWEST OF THE UPPER LOW.  EXPECT
THAT AGAIN TONIGHT BUT WHEN THE UPPER LOW STARTS TO SHEAR SATURDAY
AND SUNDAY EXPECT ACTIVITY TO BE MOST WIDESPREAD TO ITS SOUTHEAST.
THUS...POPS IN THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA ARE HIGHER
THAN THOSE IN THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE AREA AS TIME GOES ON.

TEMPS WILL DEPEND ON CLOUD COVER AND COVERAGE OF RAIN.  YESTERDAYS
HIGHS REMAINED QUITE COOL FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR DUE TO THE CLOUD
COVER AND RAIN.  NOT SURE WILL SEE A REPEAT PERFORMANCE. AM GOING TO
FORECAST HIGHS IN THE LOW TO MID 80S TODAY BASED ON THE FACT WE
COULD SEE SOME SUN.  DAY SHIFT CAN THEN TWEAK TEMPS DOWN OR UP A
CATEGORY ACCORDING TO WHAT DEVELOPS IN THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.

SIMILAR PROBLEM FOR SATURDAY AND SUNDAY...BUT SHOULD SEE A WARM UP
FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY AS UPPER RIDGE TAKES HOLD AND SHOULD SEE
PLENTY OF SUN BY THEN.

FCSTID = 17
TUL   85  68  85  68 /  50  50  30  30
FSM   84  65  84  66 /  50  50  50  50
MLC   85  68  85  68 /  50  50  50  50
BVO   84  66  84  66 /  40  40  20  20
FYV   82  63  82  63 /  50  50  50  50
BYV   82  63  82  63 /  50  50  50  50
MIO   82  63  82  63 /  50  50  30  30e
MKO   85  68  85  68 /  50  50  30  30
F10   85  68  85  68 /  50  50  30  30
HHW   84  67  84  68 /  50  50  50  50

.TSA...
AR...NONE.
OK...NONE.

ABBAS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 28, 11:15 PM CDT, 5 hours before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1115 PM CDT THU JUN 28 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

11304 PM    TULSA                     OK    .75 INCH HAIL
06/28/01   TULSA                           REPORTED BY OFF DUTY
                                           NWS EMPLOYEE
Local storm report, Jun 29, 12:48 AM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1248 AM CDT FRI JUN 29 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1158 PM    TULSA                     OK    1 INCH HAIL
06/28/01   TULSA                           81ST AND HARVARD. PRTD
                                           BY HAM RADIO SPOTTER.

1200 AM    TULSA                     OK    1.25 INCH HAIL
06/29/01   TULSA                           RPTD AT 71ST AND
                                           HARVARD BY HAM RADIO
                                           SPOTTER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 10:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSATulsa51 min
Jun 28, 11:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWagoner45 min
Jun 28, 11:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSATulsa43 min
Jun 29, 12:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMayes, Rogers41 min
Jun 29, 1:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee, Mayes63 min
Jun 29, 1:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSARogers62 min
Jun 29, 3:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPushmataha45 min
Jun 29, 3:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWagoner53 min
Jun 29, 3:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPushmataha58 min
Jun 29, 4:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAPushmataha3 hr
Jun 29, 4:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSARogers45 min
Jun 29, 4:44 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSARogers, Wagoner3 hr
Jun 29, 6:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWagoner48 min
Jun 29, 7:38 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSARogers, Wagoner112 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.