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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 25, 2002Latimer County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 2002, 1:23 PM CST for Latimer County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 52 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 25, 2002, 1:23 PM CST (19:23 UTC)
Expired
Mar 25, 2002, 2:15 PM CST
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Latimer County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 25, 1:25 PM CSTHail 1Wilburton, 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 25, 11:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 200 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 12:00Z on 2002-03-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2002-03-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 108 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
605 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
84 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
297 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KTSA 251923
SVRTUL
OKC077-252015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
123 PM CST MON MAR 25 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN LATIMER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 215 PM CST

* AT 123 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
  DAMON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...WILBURTON...
  DAMON AND RED OAK.

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 3494 9543 3480 9534 3495 9492 3509 9504

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, 9:29 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh, Muskogee46 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

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.