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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Tulsa, OK

February 19, 2002Latimer County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 19, 2002, 7:08 AM CST for Latimer County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 19, 2002, 7:08 AM CST (13:08 UTC)
Expired
Feb 19, 2002, 8:00 AM CST
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Latimer County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 199 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 2002-02-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 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 2002-02-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -139 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 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
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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KTSA 191308
SVRTUL
OKC077-191400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
708 AM CST TUE FEB 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 800 AM CST

* AT 708 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF HIGGINS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...VETERANS
  COLONY...WILBURTON...HIGGINS AND DAMON.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE 
WARNED AREA.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 19, 6:23 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh, Pittsburg82 min
Feb 19, 7:12 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, Muskogee63 min
Feb 19, 7:27 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAChoctaw, Pushmataha63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.