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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 226, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 14, 2002Haskell County, McIntosh County, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2002, 4:18 PM CDT for Haskell County, McIntosh County, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 57 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 14, 2002, 4:18 PM CDT (21:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2002, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Haskell County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 1023 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 859 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 14, 3:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 3:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA
304 PM CDT SUN JUL 14 2002

CONVECTION SO FAR THIS AFTERNOON HAS BEEN SCATTERED ACROSS AREAS
SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 44...WITH A CONCENTRATION ACROSS WEST CENTRAL
ARKANSAS AND ADJACENT COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. WITH MID LEVEL
LOW IN VICINITY AND RICH MOISTURE...EXPECT A REPEAT EVENT OF
CONVECTION ON MONDAY AFTERNOON. MID LEVEL LOW CENTER SHOULD GET
PUSHED NORTH AND CONTINUE TO WEAKEN ON TUESDAY AS SOUTHEAST U.S.
UPPER RIDGE BUILDS...SO CONVECTION ON TUESDAY COULD BE SLIGHTLY
FARTHER NORTH THAN TODAY AND LESS WIDESPREAD. EXPECT MAINLY
AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION TO DOMINATE...ALTHOUGH SHOWERS
COULD LINGER WELL INTO THE NIGHTTIME HOURS IN AREAS CLOSEST TO THE
MID LEVEL LOW.

TEMPERATURES WILL SHOW GRADUAL WARMING TREND NEXT FEW DAYS AS
MOISTURE AND CLOUD COVER DIMINISH AND WINDS EVENTUALLY REGAIN
SOUTHERLY COMPONENT. FOLLOWED THE WARMER NGM MOS FOR HIGH
TEMPERATURE FORECAST...ALTHOUGH IT MAY NOT QUITE BE WARM ENOUGH
BY TUESDAY.

IN EXTENDED...WILL KEEP IN A CHANCE OF MAINLY AFTN/EVE CONVECTION
THROUGH THURSDAY AS MID LEVEL SHEAR AXIS/UPPER SYSTEM REMAINS IN
VICINITY. DRY AND HOT WEATHER EXPECTED LATE IN THE WEEK INTO NEXT
WEEKEND.

TUL  68  90  69  92 /  10  20  10  20
FSM  69  88  70  91 /  20  30  20  30
MLC  67  89  68  91 /  20  30  20  30
BVO  67  91  67  92 /  10  20  10  20
FYV  63  86  65  88 /  20  30  20  30
BYV  63  86  64  88 /  20  30  20  30
MIO  66  89  67  91 /  20  30  20  30
MKO  67  90  69  92 /  20  30  20  30
F10  67  90  68  92 /  20  20  20  30
HHW  68  89  69  90 /  20  30  20  30

FORECAST ID= 9

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 14, 3:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
309 PM CDT SUN JUL 14 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0245 PM    ALIX                      AR   1.00 INCH HAIL
07/14/02   FRANKLIN                       REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

Local storm report, Jul 14, 3:54 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
354 PM CDT SUN JUL 14 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0330 PM    10 E WILBURTON            OK   WIND DAMAGE
07/14/02   LATIMER                        TREE LIMBS DOWN.
                                          CO-OP OBSERVER REPORT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	27 min
Jul 14, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	30 min
Jul 14, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin	38 min

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.