Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 2002, 9:43 PM CST for Cherokee County, Wagoner County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 47 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, 9:43 PM CST (03:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 2002, 10:30 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cherokee County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:44 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, 10:28 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Tahlequah, 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 6:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Mar 24, 9:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 496 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KTSA 250343 SVRTUL OKC021-145-250430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 942 PM CST SUN MAR 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHEROKEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA EASTERN WAGONER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 1030 PM CST * AT 942 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF TULLAHASSEE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...OAKS... TAHLEQUAH...HULBERT...PEGGS...SCRAPER...WAGONER...TULLAHASSEE AND OKAY. DIME SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM AT 940 PM. 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. LAT...LON 3596 9558 3580 9548 3595 9478 3618 9484
The 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, 8:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 41 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, 9:49 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.