Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 330, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 2003, 5:15 PM CDT for McIntosh County, Muskogee County, Oklahoma; Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 60 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 29, 2003, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2003, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Madison County, AR, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 169 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -183 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 998 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KTSA 292215 SVRTUL OKC091-101-292315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 513 PM CDT TUE JUL 29 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN MUSKOGEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA EASTERN MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 513 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF PORUM...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIND DAMAGE IN STIDHAM. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...PORUM...WARNER AND WEBBERS FALLS. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 3547 9553 3530 9546 3540 9509 3562 9511 $$
1 follow-up statement
551 WUUS54 KTSA 292215 RRA SVRTUL ARC087-292315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 515 PM CDT TUE JUL 29 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 515 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES EAST OF AURORA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ST PAUL... PETTIGREW...AURORA...KINGSTON...BOSTON...WITTER AND MARBLE. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 3622 9362 3578 9382 3577 9352 3612 9343 $$
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 29, 3:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 3:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA 335 PM CDT TUE JUL 29 2003 BOUNDARY DRAPED NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST ACROSS THE AREA. THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE ACROSS ALMOST THE WHOLE AREA BUT THE BEST CHANCES ARE PROBABLY OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS OR TO THE SOUTHEAST OF THE FRONT. THINK THE GFS POPS ARE MUCH TOO HIGH. THE MODEL SEEMS TO HAVE A CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK PROBLEM. DO THINK RAIN CHANCES ARE BETTER THAN THE NGM AND ETA MOS THOUGH. RAIN CHANCESWILL LINGER INTO THE MORNING HOURS...BUT DRYING AT THE SURFACE AND ALOFT SHOULD LEAD TO A MORE STABLE AIR MASS TOMORROW AFTERNOON AND TOMORROW NIGHT. BOTH THE ETA AND GFS AGREE ON THIS. THINK TOMORROW WILL BE COOLER THAN TODAY...ESPECIALLY IN THE MLC...FSM AND HHW AREAS. A WARMING TREND WILL THEN ENSUE THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AS THE WINDS COME AREA TO THE SOUTH AND 8H TEMPS INCREASE AGAIN. AGREE ON WARMING TREND BUT THE ETA MAY BE OUT OF HAND...ESECIALLY IF THE WAVE IT FORECASTS TO MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO THE AREA FRIDAY AFTERNOON GENERATES PRECIP AS ITS QPF SUGGESTS. HAVE INCLUDED POPS FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND AGAIN FROM SATURDAY AFTERNOON INTO SUNDAY AS ANOTHER BOUNDARY MAY RIDE THE WEAK NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT SOUTH INTO THE AREA. THE POTENTAIL FOR BOUNDARIES AND NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT SHOULD KEEP TEMPERATURES FROM GETTING TOO OUT OF HAND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. TUL 71 92 70 95 / 30 20 10 10 FSM 71 93 70 95 / 40 30 10 10 MLC 72 94 70 95 / 40 30 10 10 BVO 68 92 68 95 / 30 10 10 10 FYV 68 87 65 90 / 40 20 10 10 BYV 67 86 64 89 / 40 30 10 10 MKO 71 93 70 95 / 40 20 10 10 MIO 68 89 67 93 / 30 20 10 10 F10 72 93 70 95 / 40 20 10 10 HHW 73 94 71 95 / 40 30 10 10 FORECAST ID= 17 .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE. ABBAS
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 29, 3:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-301100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 320 PM CDT TUE JUL 29 2003 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...TODAY SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK A WEAK COLD FRONT WAS DRAPED ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND FAR NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON...NEAR A EUFAULA...JAY LINE. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE STARTED TO DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST-CENTRAL ARKANSAS THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BRIEFLY REACH SEVERE LIMITS THROUGH EARLY EVENING...PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL. 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. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY REMAINS IN THE AREA. BUILDING UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE WILL BRING A RETURN TO DRY WEATHER AND WARMER TEMPERATURES BY THE WEEKEND. .SPOTTER / EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST-CENTRAL ARKANSAS. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT... WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 4:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
OKZ071-292145-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
402 PM CDT TUE JUL 29 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY:
IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
MCINTOSH
AT 402 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A
LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF RAIFORD TO HANNA...MOVING
EAST AT 20 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THESE
STORMS INCLUDE...EUFAULA...HANNA...RAIFORD...VIVIAN AND STIDHAM.
THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS
TO 40 MPH. RESIDENTS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE THE
ADVISORY IS UPGRADED TO A WARNING.Special weather statement, Jul 29, 5:00 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
ARZ020-029-292300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
500 PM CDT TUE JUL 29 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES:
IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS
FRANKLIN AND SEBASTIAN
AT 500 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES
EAST OF LAVACA...STATIONARY. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY
THIS STORM INCLUDE...MILLTOWN...CHARLESTON...BRANCH...URSULA...PETER
PENDER...VESTA...LAVACA...WASHBURN...BURNVILLE...FT CHAFFEE...BLOOMER
AND CENTRAL CITY.
THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH.
RESIDENTS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE THE ADVISORY IS
UPGRADED TO A WARNING.The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 57 min |
| Jul 29, 5:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Madison | 67 min |
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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.