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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Tulsa, OK

February 19, 2002Choctaw County, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 19, 2002, 7:27 AM CST for Choctaw County, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 63 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
Feb 19, 2002, 7:27 AM CST (13:27 UTC)
Expired
Feb 19, 2002, 8:30 AM CST
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

Counties Choctaw County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:27 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Feb 19, 8:00 AM CSTThunderstorm Wind 52 EBoswell, OK

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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 209 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, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2002-02-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2002-02-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -139 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1334 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
28 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.

000 
WUUS54 KTSA 191327
SVRTUL
OKC023-127-191430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
725 AM CST TUE FEB 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  PUSHMATAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 830 AM CST

* AT 725 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
  A LINE EXTENDING FROM 19 MILES NORTHWEST OF KOSOMA TO 17 MILES WEST
  OF MOYERS TO 31 MILES WEST OF KENT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...MESSER...
  KENT...ANTLERS...CLAYTON...RATTAN...CLOUDY...MOYERS...KOSOMA...
  SNOW...NASHOBA...STANLEY...TUSKAHOMA...KIAMICHI...ALBION...OLETA...
  KELLOND AND DUNBAR.

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

BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH.

$$

MANNING

LAT...LON 3468 9550 3450 9577 3402 9595 3407 9516
          3452 9495 3470 9497

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 19, 6:23 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh, Pittsburg82 min
Feb 19, 7:08 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALatimer52 min
Feb 19, 7:12 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, Muskogee63 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.