Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 264, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2003, 8:25 PM CDT for Nowata County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 65 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
- Jun 10, 2003, 8:25 PM CDT (01:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2003, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Nowata County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:29 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 3276 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 919 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
529
WUUS54 KTSA 110125
SVRTUL
OKC105-110230-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
825 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NOWATA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 930 PM CDT
* AT 825 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3
MILES NORTHWEST OF WATOVA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...NOWATA...
DELAWARE...LENAPAH AND WATOVA.
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES 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 3669 9581 3657 9565 3672 9545 3699 9542
3701 9558
$$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 Jun 10, 7:42 PM CDT, 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 7:42 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
MESOSCALE FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA 742 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003 COMPLEX OF STORMS WITH APPROACHING SHORT WAVE CONTINUING TO EVOLVE. BOW SEGMENT ON NORTHERN END OF COMPLEX NOW APPROACHING PAWNEE AND CREEK COUNTIES. ADDITIONAL STORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OUT AHEAD OF THE COMPLEX TO THE NORTH AND EAST OF TULSA...AND ADDITIONAL STORMS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF MAIN COMPLEX AS CAP WEAKENS FURTHER AND AMS REMAINS UNSTABLE. .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 1:10 PM CDT, 7 hours 15 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-111100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 110 PM CDT TUE JUN 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 ...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... ...FLASH FLOODING MAY BE A PROBLEM TONIGHT OVER PARTS OF THE AREA... EARLY THIS AFTERNOON A COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED JUST NORTHWEST OF A KANSAS CITY TO WITCHITA TO DODGE CITY LINE. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPING ALONG THIS FRONT AND MORE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND WESTERN MISSOURI AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES. AS THE STORMS ORGANIZE INTO A COMPLEX THEY SHOULD HEAD SOUTH SOUTHEAST TOWARD NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. DURING THE EARLY STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT OF THIS COMPLEX LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING SOME STORMS WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. EVENTHOUGH WIND FIELDS ARE NOT PARTICULARLY IMPRESSIVE...SUPERCELLS WILL BE POSSIBLE GIVEN THE EXTREME INSTABILITY IN AN EVIRONMENT OF LOWER 70S DEW POINTS AND CAPES OF 3000-4000 J/KG. AS THE EVENING PROGRESSES THE SEVERE RISK WILL LESSON AND THE LIKELIHOOD FOR HEAVY RAIN WILL BECOME MORE LIKELY. PRECIPITAL WATERS NEAR 2 INCHES IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORHWEST ARKANSAS SUGGEST FLASH FLOODING MAY BECOME A PROBLEM. 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...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY UNSETTLED WEATHER WILL PERSIST THROUGH THIS PERIOD WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY. RAIN CHANCES MAY DIMINISH SOMEWHAT BY SUNDAY AND MONDAY AS A WEAK COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. .SPOTTER / EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT... WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 5:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
OKZ058-102315-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
546 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY:
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
OTTAWA
AT 546 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF AFTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT
WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...AFTON...FAIRLAND...
WYANDOTTE...OTTAWA AND PEORIA.
THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO
40 MPH.Local storm report, Jun 10, 6:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
0620 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0605 PM WYANDOTTE OK 0.75 IN HAIL
06/10/03 OTTAWA REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
SMALL TREES LIMBS WERE ALSO
DOWN.
NMKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Pawnee | 95 min |
| Jun 10, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 53 min |
| Jun 10, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 58 min |
| Jun 10, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 67 min |
| Jun 10, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 54 min |
| Jun 10, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 51 min |
| Jun 10, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 45 min |
| Jun 10, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa, Washington | 40 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003
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.