Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 176, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2003, 7:56 PM CDT for Choctaw County, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 2003, 7:56 PM CDT (00:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2003, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Choctaw County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:57 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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 2804 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 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 110056 SVRTUL OKC023-127-110145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 756 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA SOUTHERN PUSHMATAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 756 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF SOPER...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...SAWYER...FORT TOWSON...SOPER...MESSER...KENT...ANTLERS...RATTAN...CLOUDY...OLETA AND KELLOND. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 3427 9597 3404 9596 3400 9515 3437 9513
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 10, 7:05 PM CDT, 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 10, 7:05 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
MESOSCALE FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA 705 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2003 THE SLOWLY INCREASING LINE OF STORMS ACROSS THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF OKLAHOMA HAVE ONLY SLOWLY DEVELOPED. SOME GRADUAL STRENGTHENING IS LIKELY AND AN ISOLATED SEVERE CELL IS POSSIBLE ALONG THE LINE. THE ATMOSPHERE HAS BEEN STABILIZED SOME BY THE PREVIOUS STORMS...SO THE POTENTIAL IS LIMITED ENOUGH THAT THE SPC WATCH IN ADVANCE OF THIS LINE WILL NOT BE EXTENDED. FORECAST ID=08 .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE
Hazardous weather outlook, May 10, 1:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 56 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-111100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 100 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2003 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK ...NUMEROUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... EARLY THIS AFTERNOON SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING ALONG A WIND SHIFT LINE FROM NEAR BARTLESVILLE TO JUST EAST OF OKLAHOMA CITY TO WITCHITA FALLS. THIS LINE WILL PROGRESS EASTWARD THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS A POWERFUL UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM LIFTS NORTHEAST OUT OF THE DESERT SOUTHWEST INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS. THIS UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM WILL DRIVE A COLD FRONT SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING BRINGING AN END TO THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. RICH MOISTURE...EXTREME INSTABILITY AND FAVORABLE WIND FIELDS WILL LEAD TO SOME SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE VERY LARGE HAIL AND TORNADOES. A SQUALL LINE WILL EVENTUALLY EVOLVE FROM THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS AND IT WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO ALSO PRODUCE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS. WARNING PROBABILITIES FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES CAN BE FOUND IN THE OUTLOOK SECTION AT: WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA. GIVEN PROBABILITIES REPRESENT THE POTENTIAL FOR A WARNING TO BE ISSUED AT YOUR LOCATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY COOLER AND DRIER CONDITIONS WILL KEEP THE WEATHER QUIET FOR SUNDAY AND MONDAY BEFORE THE NEXT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS RETURNS BY AROUND TUESDAY. MOISTURE WILL ONCE AGAIN BE ON THE INCREASE WITH WARMER TEMPERATURES AND A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING THROUGH AT LEAST WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. .SPOTTER / EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY OFFICIALS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS VERY CLOSELY TODAY. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT... WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 10, 4:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
0443 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0442 PM FORT SMITH AR 1.75 IN HAIL
05/10/03 SEBASTIAN
SPSpecial weather statement, May 10, 5:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
ARZ020-102230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 500 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2003 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IN EFFECT FOR FRANKLIN COUNTY UNTIL 530 PM CDT... AT 500 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OUT OF CRAWFORD AND SEBASTION COUNTIES INTO FRANKLIN COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUST TO 40 MILES AN HOUR ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
Local storm report, May 10, 5:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
0520 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0512 PM 1 N CHARLESTON AR 0.88 IN HAIL
05/10/03 FRANKLIN
SPLocal storm report, May 10, 5:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
0529 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1225 AM 1 W DEPEW OK F1 TORNADO
05/10/03 CREEK 300 YARD PATH WIDTH. PATH
LENGTH 2 MILES. ENDED 1 NE
DEPEW AT 1231 AM CDT. LOTS
OF SNAPPED TREES. MINOR
DAMAGE TO A FEW STRUCTURES
ON THE FRINGE OF THE PATH.
SPSpecial weather statement, May 10, 6:59 PM CDT, 57 minutes before
ARZ001-OKZ058-062-063-068-069-110100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 659 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2003 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IN EFFECT FOR BENTON...OTTAWA... DELAWARE...MAYES...CHEROKEE AND ADAIR COUNTIES UNTIL 800 PM CDT... AT 659 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF GROVE TO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SALINA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH. THE COMMUNITIES OF WESTVILLE...BALLARD...WATTS...JAY...OAKS...LEACH...TWIN OAKS... KANSAS...COLCORD...CHLOETA...ZENA...GROVE...WEST SILOAM SPRINGS... SCRAPER...LOCUST GROVE...ROSE...SALINA...SPAVINAW...LANGLEY... DISNEY...SILOAM SPRINGS...SULPHUR SPRINGS...GENTRY...MAYSVILLE... GRAVETTE...LAKE FRANCIS...GALLITIN...SPRINGTOWN...HIGHFILL...CHEROKEE CITY...VAUGHN...DECATUR...CENTERTON...HIWASSE AND BELLA VISTA WILL BE AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS THROUGH 800 PM CDT.
Special weather statement, May 10, 7:55 PM CDT, 1 minute before
OKZ049-053-110200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 755 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2003 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IN EFFECT FOR PUSHMATAHA AND CHOCTAW COUNTIES UNTIL 900 PM CDT... AT 755 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DARWIN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH. THE COMMUNITIES OF SAWYER...FORT TOWSON...SWINK...SOPER...MESSER... KENT...SOBOL...SPEER...APPLE...ANTLERS...CORINNE...DELA...RATTAN... CLOUDY...OLETA...DARWIN AND KELLOND WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM THROUGH 900 PM CDT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.