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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 24, 2002McIntosh County, Muskogee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 2002, 9:29 PM CST for McIntosh County, Muskogee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 46 min. 2 reports 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, 9:29 PM CST (03:29 UTC)
Expired
Mar 24, 2002, 10:15 PM CST
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:29 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 24, 9:29 PM CSTHail 1Rentiesville, OK
Mar 24, 9:40 PM CSTHail 1Checotah, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 24, 9:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 165 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2002-03-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 839 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2002-03-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
839 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1665 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
136 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
2.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KTSA 250329
SVRTUL
OKC091-101-250415-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN MUSKOGEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
  MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 1015 PM CST

* AT 928 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6
  MILES NORTHEAST OF STIDHAM...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
  A SECOND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO THE WESTERN PART OF
  MCINTOSH COUNTY 2 MILES NORTH OF VERNON...MOVING EAST AT
  45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...EUFAULA...
  CHECOTAH...HANNA...RAIFORD...VIVIAN...STIDHAM...RENTIESVILLE...
  PORUM...WARNER AND WEBBERS FALLS.

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

LAT...LON 3554 9570 3533 9599 3516 9601 3539 9509
          3561 9512

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 24, 7:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek42 min
Mar 24, 7:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSARogers, Tulsa50 min
Mar 24, 8:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkfuskee43 min
Mar 24, 8:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh, Okmulgee58 min
Mar 24, 8:34 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage41 min
Mar 24, 8:36 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh, Okmulgee54 min
Mar 24, 8:42 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSATulsa, Wagoner48 min
Mar 24, 8:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkfuskee13 min
Mar 24, 8:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkfuskee48 min
Mar 24, 9:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee, Wagoner47 min
Mar 24, 9:49 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage, Pawnee26 min
Mar 24, 9:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, Pittsburg55 min
Mar 24, 10:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee, Sequoyah64 min
Mar 24, 10:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSARogers42 min
Mar 24, 10:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, LeFlore62 min
Mar 24, 11:12 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSADelaware48 min
Mar 25, 1:02 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee43 min
Mar 25, 10:32 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg28 min
Mar 25, 10:53 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALatimer52 min
Mar 25, 11:39 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore51 min
Mar 25, 12:23 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell52 min
Mar 25, 1:23 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALatimer52 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.