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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 6, 2002Wagoner County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2002, 3:01 AM CDT for Wagoner County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 6, 2002, 3:01 AM CDT (08:01 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2002, 3:45 AM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wagoner County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:01 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
May 6, 3:15 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 61 E	Wagoner, OK	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down power lines.

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
May 6, 1:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 1804 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 897 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 216 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 6.8

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KTSA 060801
SVRTUL
OKC145-060845-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
300 AM CDT MON MAY 6 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN WAGONER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 345 AM CDT

* AT 301 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4
  MILES WEST OF PORTER...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...WAGONER...
  TULLAHASSEE...PORTER...OKAY...STONEBLUFF AND COWETA.

WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. STAY
INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3600 9576 3582 9574 3581 9524 3598 9524

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 10:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	42 min
May 5, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	45 min
May 5, 11:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata	52 min
May 5, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	49 min
May 5, 11:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers	48 min
May 6, 12:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	47 min
May 6, 1:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okmulgee, Tulsa	53 min
May 6, 2:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Wagoner	51 min
May 6, 2:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	52 min
May 6, 2:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	36 min
May 6, 2:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee	43 min
May 6, 2:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	39 min
May 6, 3:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee	55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.