Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 202, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2002, 1:41 PM CDT for Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 49 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
- Jun 13, 2002, 1:41 PM CDT (18:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2002, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pittsburg County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Weathers, 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 770 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1021 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KTSA 131841 SVRTUL OKC121-131930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 141 PM CDT THU JUN 13 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PITTSBURG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 230 PM CDT * AT 141 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 3 MILES WEST OF CANADIAN TO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KIOWA...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...MCALESTER... KIOWA...BLANCO...SAVANNA...HARTSHORNE...ALDERSON...KREBS... BLOCKER...CROWDER...INDIANOLA AND CANADIAN. WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH. LAT...LON 3521 9579 3457 9606 3459 9554 3514 9542
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 58 min |
| Jun 12, 7:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 57 min |
| Jun 12, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 45 min |
| Jun 12, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Pushmataha | 62 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.