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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 299, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 30, 2001LeFlore County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 2001, 2:49 AM CDT for LeFlore County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued
Jun 30, 2001, 2:49 AM CDT (07:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 2001, 3:45 AM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County LeFlore County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:51 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 203 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2001-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 821 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2001-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
821 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
966 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

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

083 
WUUS54 KTSA 300751
SVRTUL
OKC079-300845-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
249 AM CDT SAT JUN 30 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN LE FLORE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 345 AM CDT

* AT 249 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6
  MILES NORTH OF BOKOSHE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...SPIRO...  
BOKOSHE...COWLINGTON AND PANAMA.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF HALF DOLLARS AND WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH CAN BE 
EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.

LAT...LON 3540 9478 3528 9494 3502 9487 3517 9452

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, 9:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 9:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
930 PM CDT FRI JUN 29 2001

A FEW SHOWERS WHERE NOTED OVER NW AR AND FAR SE OK...OTHERWISE ALL
IS QUIET ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA SO FAR THIS EVENING.

GOOD WAA PATTERN NOTED ACROSS ERN OK ON H85 ANALYSIS...ALONG WITH INFLUX
OF +14-15C DEWPOINTS.  00Z MESOETA STILL SUGGESTS THAT STRONG
ISENTROPIC LIFT WILL DEVELOP OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS...WHICH IS BEST
DEPICTED BY UPGLIDE ALONG 305K SURFACE.  ZONE OF BEST LIFT IS A BIT
FARTHER W THAN 18Z MESOETA...ALTHO PRESSURE CONDENSATION DEFICITS
ARE RATHER LOW IN ERN OK...SO NOT MUCH LIFT WILL NEEDED FOR
DEVELOPMENT.

1 TO 3 HOUR FFG VALUES ACROSS THE BULK OF ERN OK RUNNING AROUND 1.5
TO 2.5 RESPECTIVELY...WITH MUCH HIGHER VALUES IN NW AR AND FAR ERN
OK.  GIVEN THE EXCESSIVE RAIN OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS...CURRENT FLASH
FLOOD WATCH LOOKS GOOD.

WILL UPDATE TO ADJUST TEMPORAL WORDING...AND MAY TWEAK POPS IN A FEW
LOCATIONS.

FCSTID = 18

.TSA...
AR...NONE.
OK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THIS EVENING THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING FOR
ZONES OKZ049...OKZ053...OKZ060>062...OKZ064>068...OKZ070>076.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 30, 12:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh, Muskogee49 min
Jun 30, 12:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell64 min
Jun 30, 12:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPawnee60 min
Jun 30, 12:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore62 min
Jun 30, 1:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh36 min
Jun 30, 1:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee68 min
Jun 30, 1:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh64 min
Jun 30, 2:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg64 min
Jun 30, 2:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAHaskell, McIntosh2 hr
Jun 30, 2:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell53 min
Jun 30, 2:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPushmataha55 min
Jun 30, 2:59 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAPittsburg2 hr
Jun 30, 3:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg58 min
Jun 30, 4:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.