Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Tulsa, OK
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 8:00 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Boswell, 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.
- 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
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 9497The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 6:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Pittsburg | 82 min |
| Feb 19, 7:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer | 52 min |
| Feb 19, 7:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Muskogee | 63 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.