Severe Thunderstorm Warning 128, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

May 9, 2002, 1:30 AM CDT (06:30 UTC)

Expired

May 9, 2002, 2:15 AM CDT

In force

45 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Okmulgee County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

000 
WUUS54 KTSA 090630
SVRTUL
OKC111-143-145-090715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
130 AM CDT THU MAY 9 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 215 AM CDT

* AT 130 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
  A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTH OF BROKEN ARROW TO 13 MILES
  WEST OF BEGGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...OKMULGEE...
  MORRIS...PRESTON...BEGGS...BALD HILL...BIXBY...GLENPOOL...BROKEN
  ARROW...WAGONER...PORTER...OKAY...STONEBLUFF...COWETA AND ONETA.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN
THE WARNED AREA. STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3617 9574 3583 9616 3558 9618 3556 9574
          3584 9574 3585 9524 3606 9524

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 8, 9:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 15 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.