Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

Mar 24, 2002, 7:55 PM CST (01:55 UTC)

Expired

Mar 24, 2002, 8:45 PM CST

In force

50 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:55 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.

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WUUS54 KTSA 250155
SVRTUL
OKC131-143-250245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
753 PM CST SUN MAR 24 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ROGERS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  TULSA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 845 PM CST

* AT 753 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM      
  OVER SAND SPRINGS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL WAS 
  REPORTED IN SAND SPRINGS AT 751 PM. ANOTHER SEVERE STORM JUST      
  SOUTHWEST OF SAPULPA WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN TULSA COUNTY SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...CLAREMORE...
  CATOOSA...VERDIGRIS...TIAWAH...FOYIL...OOLOGAH...TULSA...JENKS...
  OWASSO...GLENPOOL AND BROKEN ARROW.



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.

BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH.

LAT...LON 3615 9611 3587 9602 3627 9545 3661 9552

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 24, 6:45 PM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
645 PM CST SUN MAR 24 2002

HV GONE AHEAD AND UPDATED ZFP TO INCLUDE WS 33. PREVIOUS FCST ON
TRACK ATTM...WITH SVR WORDING ACROSS ALL NRN ZNS. CONVECTION
STARTING TO DEVELOP ALONG THE WRN BORDER OF THE CWFA ATTM. STORMS
STRUGGLING A BIT BUT SHOULD BE ABLE TO STRENGTHEN OVER THE NEXT HOUR
OR SO. GOOD POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL TNGT WITH FAVORABLE SHEAR/WBZ
HEIGHTS.

UDPATED ZFP ALREADY SENT...

MANNING
FCSTID = 24

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

In the hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
753 PM CST SUN MAR 24 2002

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

0749 PM    SAND SPRINGS              OK   .75 INCH HAIL
03/24/02   TULSA                          REPORTED BY HAM RADIO.

MANNING

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.