Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 327, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2001, 6:58 PM CDT for Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 47 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
- Aug 10, 2001, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2001, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Pushmataha County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 343 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -204 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
227 WUUS54 KTSA 102359 SVRTUL OKC127-110045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 658 PM CDT FRI AUG 10 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN PUSHMATAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 658 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF KOSOMA...MOVING SLOWLY EAST AT 5 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...JUMBO AND KOSOMA. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3454 9580 3441 9583 3433 9560 3452 9556
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 Aug 10, 3:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 3:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 330 PM CDT FRI AUG 10 2001 THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS THE CWA AT THIS TIME. TEMPERATURES CLIMBED QUITE NICELY TODAY AS SKIES REMAINED PARTLY CLOUDY INSTEAD OF MOSTLY CLOUDY. FRONT STALLED ACROSS NORTHERN PORTION OF CWA DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. FRONT POSITION SHOULD REMAIN ACROSS THE CWA TONIGHT MOVING A LITTLE FURTHER SOUTH. THIS WILL KEEP CHANCE POPS GOING FOR TONIGHT INTO TOMORROW. FRONTAL POSITION AND CLOUDS WILL REALLY PLAY INTO TEMPERATURE FORECAST NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS AS WELL. DRYING MOVING INTO THE AREA ON SUNDAY FROM THE NORTH SO WILL BEGIN TO DRY THINGS OUT. EXTENDED STILL LOOKS DRY UNTIL THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY AS NEXT FRONTAL SYSTEM MOVES SOUTH INTO THE AREA. WILL INTRODUCE POPS ON FRIDAY FOR NOW AS IT APPEARS TO BE THE MORE LIKELY DAY AT THIS TIME. HOWIESON FCSTID = 44 ...PRELIMINARY NUMBERS CHANGES LIKELY... TUL 70 92 71 93 / 30 30 20 20 FSM 71 93 71 95 / 40 40 30 20 MLC 71 94 72 94 / 40 40 30 20 BVO 66 89 67 90 / 30 30 20 10 FYV 65 87 66 89 / 30 30 20 20 BYV 65 87 66 89 / 30 30 20 20 MIO 67 88 67 87 / 30 30 20 20 MKO 70 92 71 93 / 30 30 20 20 F10 70 92 71 93 / 30 30 20 20 HHW 75 97 74 96 / 40 40 30 30 .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 10, 1:08 PM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
108 PM CDT FRI AUG 10 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0740 PM 1 N BLUEJACKET OK WIND DAMAGE
08/09/01 CRAIG TRAILER HOUSE ELEVATED
FOR TRANSPORTING ROLLED
OVER AND TREE DAMAGE
RPTD BY EM.
TLLocal storm report, Aug 10, 5:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
508 PM CDT FRI AUG 10 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0315 PM WINSLOW AR 1 INCH HAIL
08/10/01 WASHINGTON
0420 PM LINCOLN AR WIND DAMAGE
08/10/01 WASHINGTON TREES BLOWN DOWN ON
POWER LINES
0450 PM 9 E HALLETT OK .75 INCH HAIL
08/10/01 PAWNEEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Okmulgee | 43 min |
| Aug 10, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 52 min |
| Aug 10, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 43 min |
| Aug 10, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 42 min |
| Aug 10, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Pawnee | 49 min |
| Aug 10, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 35 min |
| Aug 10, 6:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 93 min |
| Aug 10, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.