Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 286, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2003, 11:01 PM CDT for Washington County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 44 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
- Jul 9, 2003, 11:01 PM CDT (04:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2003, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:05 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jul 9, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 1823 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1357 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KTSA 100401 SVRTUL OKC147-100445- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1101 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 1145 PM CDT * AT 1101 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 2 MILES EAST OF DEWEY TO 14 MILES WEST OF OCHELATA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...RAMONA... OCHELATA...DEWEY AND BARTLESVILLE. 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 3686 9598 3648 9603 3645 9583 3687 9580 $$
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 Jul 9, 9:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 9:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA 935 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2003 UPDATED ZFP TO INCLUDE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 708 VALID TIL 2 AM...ALSO REFINED POPS FOR OVERNIGHT. REST OF FORECAST LOOKS OKAY. LINE OF STORMS CONTINUES TO MARCH ACROSS SE KANSAS WITH LEADING EDGE ABOUT TO PUSH INTO OSAGE CO AS OF 920 PM. ACTIVITY SHOULD HOLD TOGETHER A WHILE LONGER WITH SOME THREAT FOR SEVERE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS ACROSS NE OKLAHOMA. RADAR/SAT EXTRAPOLATION PLACES LINE THROUGH TULSA AREA BY MIDNIGHT. STORMS SHOULD BECOME MORE ELEVATED AS THE NIGHT WEARS ON WITH BEST CHANCES SHIFTING INTO NW ARKANSAS... WHERE HIGHEST POPS WILL BE CARRIED AFTER 06Z. FORECAST ID = 14 .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE. SULLIVAN
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 9, 7:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-101100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 740 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2003 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK ...SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA THIS EVENING... STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS EARLY THIS EVENING ALONG AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE PUSHING SOUTHEAST AHEAD OF THE FRONT...MOVING INTO FAR NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA BETWEEN 900 AND 1000 PM. ALTHOUGH THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY BEGIN TO WEAKEN BY THIS TIME...A FEW STORMS COULD BE SEVERE...PRODUCING DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MILES PER HOUR...PRIMARILY NORTH OF THE INTERSTATE 44 CORRIDOR. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE COLD FRONT. IN ADDITION...ELEVATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE FRONT ACROSS NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AFTER MIDNIGHT. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL ALSO BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. 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...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THURSDAY AS THE COLD FRONT STALLS ACROSS THE AREA AND EVENTUALLY LOSES DEFINITION BY FRIDAY. ANOTHER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING AS THUNDERSTORMS WHICH DEVELOP OVER THE HIGH PLAINS MAY MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA. HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL BUILD OVER THE AREA SUNDAY INTO NEXT WEEK BRINGING HOT AND DRY WEATHER. .SPOTTER / EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS EVENING ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA...PRIMARILY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 44. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT... WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 8:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
OKZ054>074-100700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 850 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #708 UNTIL 200 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS: IN OKLAHOMA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 21 COUNTIES... IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA: CHEROKEE MUSKOGEE OKFUSKEE SEQUOYAH IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA: ADAIR CRAIG CREEK DELAWARE MAYES NOWATA OKMULGEE OSAGE OTTAWA PAWNEE ROGERS TULSA WAGONER WASHINGTON IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA: HASKELL MCINTOSH PITTSBURG THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF BARTLESVILLE...BRISTOW...BROKEN ARROW... CLAREMORE...EUFAULA...JAY...MCALESTER...MIAMI...MUSKOGEE...NOWATA... OKEMAH...OKMULGEE...PAWHUSKA...PAWNEE...PRYOR...SALLISAW...SAND SPRINGS...STIGLER...STILWELL...TAHLEQUAH...TULSA...VINITA AND WAGONER.
Local storm report, Jul 9, 10:51 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1051 PM CDT WED JUL 09 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1048 PM CENTRALIA OK WIND DAMAGE
07/09/03 CRAIG 65 MPH WIND GUST AND TREE
LIMBS DOWN IN CENTRALIA
CASThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata, Washington | 58 min |
| Jul 9, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 66 min |
| Jul 9, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 56 min |
| Jul 9, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata | 50 min |
| Jul 9, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 59 min |
| Jul 9, 11:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 53 min |
| Jul 9, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 61 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.