Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 19, 2002, 6:23 AM CST for McIntosh County, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 82 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 19, 2002, 6:23 AM CST (12:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 19, 2002, 7:45 AM CST
- In force
- 82 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties McIntosh County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 7:04 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Canadian, OK | |
| Feb 19, 7:10 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Checotah, 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 nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 1334 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KTSA 191223
SVRTUL
OKC091-121-191345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
623 AM CST TUE FEB 19 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
PITTSBURG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 745 AM CST
* AT 623 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
A LINE EXTENDING FROM 14 MILES WEST OF SCIPIO TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF ASHLAND TO 28 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ASHLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
60 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...EUFAULA...
CHECOTAH...HANNA...RAIFORD...VIVIAN...STIDHAM...RENTIESVILLE...
MCALESTER...KIOWA...BLANCO...ASHLAND...SAVANNA...HARTSHORNE...
HAYWOOD...ALDERSON...KREBS...SCIPIO...BLOCKER...CROWDER...INDIANOLA
AND CANADIAN.
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED
IN THE WARNED AREA.
BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH.
$$
MANNING
LAT...LON 3537 9597 3494 9612 3461 9607 3461 9554
3517 9544 3554 9542The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 7:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer | 52 min |
| Feb 19, 7:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Muskogee | 63 min |
| Feb 19, 7:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Pushmataha | 63 min |
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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.