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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 209, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 10, 2002Osage County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2002, 7:12 PM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 33 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
Jul 10, 2002, 7:12 PM CDT (00:12 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 2002, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Osage County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 10, 7:40 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 61 EFairfax, OKThunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew trees and power lines down.

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

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 96 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2002-07-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1555 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2002-07-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -23 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1555 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2216 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
138 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

551 
WUUS54 KTSA 110012 CCA
SVRTUL
OKC113-110100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTION
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
708 PM CDT WED JUL 10 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 708 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
  A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES EAST OF SHIDLER TO                   
  SKIATOOK...MOVING SOUTH AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...PAWHUSKA...
  SHIDLER...HOMINY...AVANT...WYNONA...FAIRFAX...BARNSDALL...FORAKER
  AND SKIATOOK.

WIND GUSTS OF 60 TO 70 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. STAY 
INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3692 9661 3643 9598 3615 9606 3655 9677

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 7:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage36 min
Jul 10, 7:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee58 min
Jul 10, 8:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee, Okmulgee51 min
Jul 10, 9:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkfuskee52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2002Every 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.