Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 281, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2003, 6:49 PM CDT for Okmulgee County, Tulsa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 56 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 29, 2003, 6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2003, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Okmulgee County, OK, Tulsa County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 216 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 997 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
789 WUUS54 KTSA 292349 SVRTUL OKC111-143-300045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 648 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN OKMULGEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA SOUTHERN TULSA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 648 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BIXBY...SHOWING LITTLE MOVEMENT. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BIXBY AND LIBERTY. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 3594 9603 3575 9604 3574 9573 3601 9576 $$
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 29, 3:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 3:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA 305 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 2003 MORE SUN TODAY HAS LED TO WARMER TEMPERATURES. BULK OF CONVECTIVE DEBRIS HAS STAYED TO OUR WEST AND NORTH BUT THIS MAY CHANGE THIS EVENING. A FEW STORMS HAVE FORMED IN KANSAS AND THE ETA INDICATES THAT MORE ARE TO FOLLOW. WOULD THINK THE NORTHWEST PART OF THE FORECAST AREA WOULD HAVE THE BEST CHANCE OF RAIN TONIGHT AND THEN A PRETTY EVEN CHANCE OF RAIN EVERYWHERE TOMORROW. GFS THE PREVIOUS DAYS HAD RAIN FOCUSED ON A BOUNDARY/FRONT. THE 12Z GFS AND ETA ARE MORE IN AGREEMENT OF SOME SORT OF BOUNDARY BUT NOT A WELL DEFINED FRONT. MCVS FROM PREVIOUS AND FUTURE CONVECTION ARE ALSO LIKELY TO PLAY A PART. GFS MAY SHOW ONE OF THE FEATURES HEADED SOUTHEAST TUESDAY. SO HAVE KEPT RAIN CHANCES THEN WITH THE BEST CHANCE IN THE SOUTH AND EAST. THIS FEATURE THEN SHIFTS SOUTH AND EAST OF THE AREA TUESDAY NIGHT AND THINK AFTER THAT THE UPPER RIDGE WILL KEEP THINGS PRETTY QUIET. ONE NOTE OF INTEREST IS THE TROPICAL SYSTEM I HAVE TALKED ABOUT THE LAST FEW DAYS WHICH MIGHT HAVE KEPT RAIN IN THE FORECAST TIL WEDNESDAY. THE HURRICANCE CENTERS HAVE IT SLOWER THAN THE MODELS BUT IT SEEMS LIKE THE TRACK IS TRENDING FURTHER SOUTH AND EAST OF US SO IT SHOULD NOT HAVE MUCH OF AN EFFECT ON OUR WEATHER. TEMP WISE...AS IS THE CASE IN SUMMER IT WILL DEPEND MORE ON CLOUD COVER AND ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAN ANYTHING ELSE. HAVE KEPT TOMORROW IN THE LOW TO MID 80S DUE TO THE POTENTIAL CLOUDS. WARMED THINGS UP SOME AS THE WEEK PROGRESES AND AS EXPECT WILL DRY OUT SOME. TUL 65 86 66 88 / 40 40 20 20 FSM 64 86 66 88 / 20 40 30 30 MLC 64 87 66 89 / 20 40 30 20 BVO 63 85 65 87 / 50 40 20 20 FYV 60 83 63 85 / 20 40 30 30 BYV 59 83 62 85 / 20 40 40 30 MKO 64 86 66 88 / 30 40 30 20 MIO 61 84 64 86 / 30 40 30 20 F10 65 86 66 88 / 30 40 30 20 HHW 64 88 67 90 / 20 40 30 30 FORECAST ID= 17 .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE. ABBAS
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 29, 1:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-301100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 100 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 2003 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM LAST NIGHTS THUNDERSTORMS TO THE WEST MAY SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR NEW THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS MAY FORM LATER TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EARLY PART OF THIS WEEK AS A WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY WILL LINGER OVER THE AREA THROUGH TUESDAY. EVOLUTION OF A TROPICAL SYSTEM IN THE GULF OF MEXICO MAY ALSO RESULT IN A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TOWARD MIDWEEK ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...HOWEVER CURRENT MODEL GUIDANCE SUGGESTS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ASSOCIATED WITH THIS FEATURE WOULD REMAIN MAINLY ACROSS LOUISIANA AND ARKANSAS. .SPOTTER / EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT... WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA
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.