Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Apr 16, 2002, 8:43 PM CDT for Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 47 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
- Apr 16, 2002, 8:43 PM CDT (01:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2002, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pushmataha County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 9:05 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Clayton, OK | |
| Apr 16, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Jumbo, OK | The public reported a brief touchdown of a F0 tornado just north of Jumbo. No damage was reported. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 1660 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1179 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 336 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KTSA 170143 TORTUL OKC127-170230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 843 PM CDT TUE APR 16 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN PUSHMATAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 843 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF MOYERS...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...CLAYTON... MOYERS...KOSOMA...SNOW...NASHOBA...STANLEY AND DUNBAR. IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS NIGHTTIME TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS - TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE LAT...LON 3460 9590 3431 9579 3432 9505 3467 9535
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 44 min |
| Apr 16, 9:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 2 hr |
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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.