Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 2002, 8:34 PM CST for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 41 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
- Mar 24, 2002, 8:34 PM CST (02:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 2002, 9:15 PM CST
- In force
- 41 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), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 8:35 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Ralston, 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.
Did it verify
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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 6:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2823 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
302 WUUS54 KTSA 250234 SVRTUL OKC113-250315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 832 PM CST SUN MAR 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 915 PM CST * AT 832 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES WEST OF RALSTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...PAWHUSKA... SHIDLER...FAIRFAX...BURBANK...OKESA...PEARSONIA...BIGHEART AND HULAH. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS 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 3665 9707 3639 9699 3665 9602 3702 9600
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 Mar 24, 6:45 PM CST, 1 hour 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 24, 6:45 PM CST, 1 hour 49 minutes before
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
Local storm report, Mar 24, 7:53 PM CST, 41 minutes 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.
MANNINGLocal storm report, Mar 24, 8:09 PM CST, 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
809 PM CST SUN MAR 24 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0805 PM GLENPOOL OK .75 INCH HAIL
03/24/02 TULSA REPORTED BY HAM RADIO.
0803 PM 4 W OWASSO OK .75 INCH HAIL
03/24/02 TULSA REPORTED BY HAM RADIO.
MANNINGLocal storm report, Mar 24, 8:16 PM CST, 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
816 PM CST SUN MAR 24 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0805 PM PADEN OK 1.00 INCH HAIL
03/24/02 OKFUSKEE REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
MANNINGLocal storm report, Mar 24, 8:22 PM CST, 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
822 PM CST SUN MAR 24 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0820 PM 1 NE OWASSO OK 0.75 INCH HAIL
03/24/02 TULSA REPORTED BY HAM RADIO.
MANNINGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 7:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 42 min |
| Mar 24, 7:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa | 50 min |
| Mar 24, 8:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 43 min |
| Mar 24, 8:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Okmulgee | 58 min |
| Mar 24, 8:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Okmulgee | 54 min |
| Mar 24, 8:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa, Wagoner | 48 min |
| Mar 24, 8:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 13 min |
| Mar 24, 8:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 48 min |
| Mar 24, 9:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee | 46 min |
| Mar 24, 9:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Wagoner | 47 min |
| Mar 24, 9:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 26 min |
| Mar 24, 9:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Pittsburg | 55 min |
| Mar 24, 10:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Sequoyah | 64 min |
| Mar 24, 10:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 42 min |
| Mar 24, 10:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, LeFlore | 62 min |
| Mar 24, 11:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 48 min |
| Mar 25, 1:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee | 43 min |
| Mar 25, 10:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 28 min |
| Mar 25, 10:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer | 52 min |
| Mar 25, 11:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 51 min |
| Mar 25, 12:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 52 min |
| Mar 25, 1:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer | 52 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.