Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

Apr 14, 2001, 11:37 PM CDT (04:37 UTC)

Expired

Apr 15, 2001, 12:15 AM CDT

In force

38 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Osage County, OK

The Wichita radar (KICT), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:39 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.

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.

000 
WUUS54 KTSA 150437
SVRTUL
OKC113-150515-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1137 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT

* AT 1137 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 18
  MILES WEST OF GRAINOLA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...GRAINOLA...
  FORAKER...PEARSONIA...SHIDLER AND PAWHUSKA.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS AND WIND GUSTS TO 75 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED 
IN THE WARNED AREA.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE NEAR ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR VERY LARGE HAIL AND STRONG DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.
SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

LAT...LON 3707 9702 3691 9711 3655 9627 3677 9614

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 14, 9:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
950 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

THE QUESTION STILL REMAINS HOW FAR SOUTH WILL THE STORM COMPLEX GO?
ONE ISOLATED SUPERCELL HAS BEEN MOVING SLIGHTLY SOUTH OF EAST ACROSS
SOUTHERN KANSAS ALL EVENING...WHILE A CLUSTER OF STORMS HAS RECENTLY
DEVELOPED TO THE WEST OF THIS STORM.  IT STILL APPEARS THAT MOST OF
NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA MAY BE SPARED...BUT AREAS NEAR THE KANSAS BORDER
WILL PROBABLY FEEL THE HEAT IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS.  THE 00Z MESOETA
KEEPS MOST OF THE PRECIPITATION ALONG AND NORTH OF THE KANSAS BORDER
THROUGH 6Z AND THEN BACK BUILDS IT INTO A MORE WESTERLY LOW-LEVEL
JET ACROSS FAR NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND EVENTUALLY NORTHWEST
ARKANSAS.  THIS SCENARIO IS IN LINE WITH 18Z RUN AND IN GENERAL
MAKES SENSE.  WILL THEREFORE INCREASE POPS TO CATEGORICAL IN THE
NORTHEAST ZONES AND TAPER THEM TO CHANCE NEAR THE RED RIVER. A FEW
SHOWERS REMAIN NEAR THE RED RIVER AT THIS TIME...BUT MOST OF
ACTIVITY HAS MOVED EAST OF THAT AREA.

UPDATED ZONES WILL BE SENT AROUND 10 PM SO THAT WATCH HEADLINES CAN
BE CHANGED APPROPRIATELY.  THE WATCH IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA WILL
EXPIRE ANDl A NEW WATCH FOR NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
WILL BEGIN AT THAT TIME.

FCSTID = 19

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

In the hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1035 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

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

0748 PM    2 W ANTLERS               OK    .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/01   PUSHMATAHA                      [ANTLERS PD]

0800 PM    HUGO                      OK    .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/01   CHOCTA8W                         [HUGO PD]

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

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.