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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Tulsa, OK

February 9, 2001Choctaw County, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 9, 2001, 3:07 AM CST for Choctaw County, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 53 min. 5 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: Feb 9, 2001, 3:07 AM CST (09:07 UTC)
Expired: Feb 9, 2001, 4:00 AM CST
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Choctaw County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:09 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 9, 3:14 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Boswell, OK
Feb 9, 3:20 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Jumbo, OK	Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs and also blew a metal roof off a shed.
Feb 9, 3:20 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Pittsburg, OK
Feb 9, 3:40 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilburton, OK	Thunderstorm winds blew down a large sign.
Feb 9, 4:00 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton, OK	Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs.

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
Feb 9, 2:45 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 886 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 590 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 226 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 4.6

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KTSA 090907
SVRTUL
OKC023-077-121-127-091000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
307 AM CST FRI FEB 9 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  LATIMER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  SOUTHERN PITTSBURG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  PUSHMATAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 400 AM CST

* AT 307 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
  A LINE EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES SOUTH OF HAYWOOD TO 19 MILES WEST OF
  MOYERS TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BOSWELL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...DUNBAR...
  KELLOND...OLETA...ALBION...KIAMICHI...TUSKAHOMA...STANLEY...
  NASHOBA...SNOW...KOSOMA...MOYERS...CLOUDY...RATTAN...CLAYTON...
  ANTLERS...KREBS...ALDERSON...HAYWOOD...HARTSHORNE...SAVANNA...
  BLANCO...KIOWA...MCALESTER...KENT...MESSER...SOPER...BOSWELL...FORT
  TOWSON...SAWYER...GOODLAND...HUGO...RED OAK...DAMON...BENGAL...
  HIGGINS...YANUSH AND WILBURTON.

DAMAGING WINDS MAY OCCUR UP TO 10 MILES AHEAD OF THE HEAVY RAIN
AND HAIL. MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE NOW.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY
FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS.

LAT...LON 3491 9598 3437 9599 3378 9610 3399 9518
          3471 9502 3510 9496

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 Feb 8, 11:29 PM CST, 3 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 8, 11:29 PM CST, 3 hours 38 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1129 PM CST THU FEB 8 2001

WITH TEMPS ALREADY IN THE MID 30S OVER NRN OSAGE COUNTY...DECIDED TO
GO AHEAD WITH A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR OUR ZONES NW OF TUL.
WARM GROUND WILL GREATLY LIMIT ANY ICING ON ROADS...ALTHO A FEW
EXPOSED ROADWAYS MAY SEE SOME MINOR ACCUMULATIONS.

FCSTID = 18

.TUL...
AR...NONE.
OK...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY MORNING FOR ZONES
OKZ054>055...OKZ059.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 9, 2:30 AM CST, 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
230 AM CST FRI FEB 09 2001

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

0155 AM    3 E OKEMAH                OK    58 MPH TSTM GUST
02/09/01   OKFUSKEE                        MESONET REPORT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 9, 1:59 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee, Okmulgee	46 min
Feb 9, 2:31 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner	44 min
Feb 9, 2:31 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	44 min
Feb 9, 3:01 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	29 min
Feb 9, 3:07 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg	53 min
Feb 9, 3:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	30 min
Feb 9, 3:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	50 min
Feb 9, 3:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	49 min
Feb 9, 3:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha	64 min
Feb 9, 3:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw	64 min
Feb 9, 4:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	49 min
Feb 9, 4:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	60 min
Feb 9, 4:32 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	58 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.