Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 307, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2001, 3:43 PM CDT for Craig County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 62 min. 1 report 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
- Jul 28, 2001, 3:43 PM CDT (20:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2001, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Craig County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 3:52 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Bluejacket, OK | Thunderstorm wind estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a few trees. |
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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 263 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 759 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KTSA 282043 SVRTUL OKC035-282145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 343 PM CDT SAT JUL 28 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CRAIG COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 343 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES WEST OF BLUEJACKET...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...WELCH AND BLUEJACKET. WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH. $$ MANNING; LAT...LON 3682 9543 3662 9543 3668 9501 3699 9507
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 Jul 28, 2:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 2:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 206 PM CDT SAT JUL 28 2001 MAIN CHALLENGE THIS FORECAST WILL BE FIRST PERIOD POPS AS CONVECTIVE COMPLEX DEVELOPS AND MOVES ACROSS PARTS OF AREA. 12Z AVN MODEL MAY HAVE BEST DEPICTION OF QPF FOR TONIGHT AND EARLY SUNDAY. APPEARS THAT BEST CHANCE OF WIDESPREAD RAINS TONIGHT WILL BE ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. CLUSTERS OF STORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG AND NORTH OF AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY ACROSS EXTREME NORTHERN OKLAHOMA AT THIS TIME...AND THIS ACTIVITY MAY ORGANIZE THIS EVENING AND MOVE EAST SOUTHEAST. WILL GO WITH HIGHEST POPS IN THOSE ZONES NORTH AND EAST OF TULSA...WITH POPS TAPERING OFF TO 20 IN FAR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. MAY RAISE TONIGHTS POPS INTO LIKELY CATEGORY IN SOME ZONES BASED ON RADAR TRENDS AT 4 PM ISSUANCE TIME. AFTER COMPLEX OF STORMS DISSIPATES OR MOVES SOUTHEAST OF THE AREA BY EARLY SUNDAY AFTERNOON...THE PATTERN SHOULD RETURN TO HOT AND DRY FOR MOST OF THE UPCOMING WEEK. UPPER RIDGING REDEVELOPS ACROSS OKLAHOMA BEHIND TONIGHTS SHORTWAVE...AND TEMPERATURES SHOULD AGAIN RISE TO NEAR THE CENTURY MARK IN WESTERN ZONES BEGINNING MONDAY. WILL KEEP EXTENDED DRY WITH HOT AFTERNOONS. COULD BE SOME ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE USUAL TERRAIN-FAVORED AREAS OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS...BUT OTHERWISE EXPECT HOT/HUMID AFTERNOONS WITH LITTLE DAY TO DAY TEMPERATURE CHANGE. FCSTID = 9 FIRST PERIOD POPS SUBJECT TO CHANGE... TUL 75 97 78 99 / 40 10 10 10 FSM 75 98 76 99 / 40 30 10 10 MLC 75 98 76 99 / 30 20 10 10 BVO 73 97 74 99 / 50 10 10 10 FYV 70 92 71 93 / 50 20 10 10 BYV 70 92 70 93 / 50 20 10 10 MIO 71 94 72 95 / 50 20 10 10 MKO 75 97 77 99 / 40 10 10 10 F10 75 97 77 99 / 40 10 10 10 HHW 75 96 76 98 / 20 30 10 10 .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
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.