Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

May 8, 2002, 9:33 PM CDT (02:33 UTC)

Expired

May 8, 2002, 10:30 PM CDT

In force

57 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties

County Osage County, OK

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:33 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 090233
SVRTUL
OKC113-090330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
933 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 933 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
  A LINE EXTENDING FROM 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF BURBANK TO 19 MILES
  WEST OF BURBANK TO 28 MILES WEST OF FAIRFAX...MOVING EAST AT 40    
  MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ALSO INDICATED SOME ROTATION WITH THIS STORM.   
  TAKE SHELTER FROM THIS DANGEROUS STORM IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...SHIDLER...
  FAIRFAX...BURBANK...PEARSONIA AND FORAKER.

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

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. TORNADOES CAN
DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH.

$$

MANNING

LAT...LON 3670 9706 3649 9701 3653 9676 3637 9646
          3660 9642 3692 9641 3691 9677

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 8, 9:15 PM CDT, 18 minutes earlier.

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA
915 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2002

RUNNING A BIT BEHIND WITH ONGOING WEATHER AND GFE PROBLEMS.

SE KS CONVECTION HAS RACED OUT AHEAD OF COLD FRONT...WITH
WELL-DEFINED OUTFLOW BOUNDARY PUSHING INTO OUR FAR NRN COUNTIES AT
THIS TIME.  ADDITIONAL SEVERE CONVECTION JUST TO THE W OF OUR NWRN
CWA CONTINUES ALONG COLD FRONT.  00Z OUN SOUNDING WAS QUITE
IMPRESSIVE WITH NEARLY 4000 J/KG OF CAPE AND JUST A SLIVER OF A CAP
LEFT.

EXPECT THIS ACTIVITY TO GRADUALLY BECOME MORE LINEAR WITH TIME...AND
EVENTUALLY DEVELOP INTO A MCS OVERNIGHT. PROGGD CORFIDI VECTORS
SUGGEST MCS WILL PEEL ESE INTO FAR NE OK AND EVENTUALLY NW AR LATER
TONIGHT.

WILL UPDATE TO TWEAK POPS SOME...AND ADJUST TIMING OF CONVECTION.

UPDATE SHOULD BE OUT BETWEEN 930 AND 945 PM.

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

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

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.