Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 365, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2003, 4:49 AM CDT for Adair County, Sequoyah 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
- Aug 3, 2003, 4:49 AM CDT (09:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2003, 5:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Adair County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 2:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 732 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1454 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
410
WUUS54 KTSA 030949
SVRTUL
OKC001-135-031045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
449 AM CDT SUN AUG 3 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SEQUOYAH COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
ADAIR COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 545 AM CDT
* AT 449 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF BUNCH TO 6 MILES
NORTHWEST OF VIAN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...STILWELL...
BUNCH...VIAN...BRUSHY...SHORT AND MARBLE CITY.
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 3546 9502 3564 9510 3565 9481 3579 9481
3586 9453 3548 9447
$$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 Aug 3, 4:06 AM CDT, 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 4:06 AM CDT, 43 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA 406 AM CDT SUN AUG 3 2003 DISC... ------------------------------------------- SUBTLE FEATURES ALL TEAM TO PROVIDE ANOTHER BUSY NIGHT. MINOR WAVE IN FLOW TRANSPARENT AT H500 BUT HINTED AT IN THERMAL FIELD H700 LEVEL... ALONG WITH WEAK LLJ AND CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY RESIDUE...AND AMPLE MOISTURE YIELD POTENT THUNDER. SATELLITE / LIGHTNING DATA SHOW LINEAR NEBRASKA/KANSAS CONVECTION ALSO SLIDING SOUTH. PUSHED POPS INTO LIKELY CAT FOR MORNING HOURS MOST PLACES. 00Z GFS QPF BULLSEYE VALID 18Z / 00Z INITIALLY REGARDED AS OVER-JUICED FEEDBACK...HOWEVER GIVEN THE CURRENT RADAR PICTURE... LOOKING BETTER ALL THE TIME. GFS EVEN DEVELOPS MINOR H500 00Z KINK AROUND TXK. MAX TEMPS CLOSER MET THAN MAV AGAIN TODAY. EVENTUALLY GREAT LAKES LOW HEADS FOR QUEBEC AND WEST COAST LOW GIVES A BOOST TO HEIGHTS OVER ROCKIES. AS HEIGHTS BUILD..THE BULK OF NORTHWEST FLOW WOES WILL MIGRATE EAST. GW -------------------------------------------- TUL 97 75 94 76 / 70 40 20 20 FSM 93 72 92 74 / 70 30 20 20 MLC 93 73 93 74 / 60 20 20 20 BVO 96 70 93 73 / 50 40 20 20 FYV 87 68 87 69 / 60 40 20 20 BYV 90 70 86 70 / 50 30 20 20 MKO 95 74 93 74 / 70 30 20 20 MIO 94 72 91 72 / 50 30 20 20 F10 96 74 94 74 / 70 20 20 20 HHW 93 74 94 74 / 60 20 20 20 FORECAST ID= 21 .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 2, 10:35 AM CDT, 18 hours 14 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-031100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1035 AM CDT SAT AUG 02 2003 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK ...SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... A WEAKENING COMPLEX OF STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE OUT OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS MORNING. HOWEVER... ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON ALONG ANY RESIDUAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES PRODUCED FROM THIS MORNINGS STORMS...MAINLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40. AS THE LOW LEVEL JET STRENGTHENS TONIGHT...ELEVATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY ONCE AGAIN DEVELOP OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST-CENTRAL ARKANSAS. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP. 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. THE CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN IN FORECAST FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS AS DISTURBANCES MOVE SOUTHEAST OVER THE UPPER RIDGE. .SPOTTER / EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT...SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL MAY BE REQUIRED ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT... WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 2:33 AM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
OKZ054>055-057>076-031300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 233 AM CDT SUN AUG 3 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 833 UNTIL 800 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS: IN OKLAHOMA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 23 COUNTIES... IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA: CHEROKEE MUSKOGEE OKFUSKEE SEQUOYAH IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA: ADAIR CRAIG CREEK DELAWARE MAYES OKMULGEE OSAGE OTTAWA PAWNEE ROGERS TULSA WAGONER WASHINGTON NOWATA IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA: HASKELL LATIMER LE FLORE MCINTOSH PITTSBURG THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF BARTLESVILLE...BRISTOW...BROKEN ARROW... CLAREMORE...EUFAULA...JAY...MCALESTER...MIAMI...MUSKOGEE...OKEMAH... OKMULGEE...PAWHUSKA...PAWNEE...POTEAU...PRYOR...SALLISAW...SAND SPRINGS...STIGLER...STILWELL...TAHLEQUAH...TULSA...VINITA...WAGONER AND WILBURTON.
Local storm report, Aug 3, 4:30 AM CDT, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
0430 AM CDT SUN AUG 03 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0400 AM DEPEW OK GOLFBALL HAIL
08/03/03 CREEK REPORTED BY BRISTOW EMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 1:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 58 min |
| Aug 3, 2:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 57 min |
| Aug 3, 2:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 2:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Tulsa | 50 min |
| Aug 3, 3:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Wagoner | 57 min |
| Aug 3, 3:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 3:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 68 min |
| Aug 3, 3:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 62 min |
| Aug 3, 4:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Wagoner | 58 min |
| Aug 3, 4:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 38 min |
| Aug 3, 4:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 61 min |
| Aug 3, 6:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 8:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 8:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 43 min |
| Aug 3, 8:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 10:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 49 min |
| Aug 3, 11:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 2 hr |
| Aug 3, 11:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 41 min |
| Aug 3, 1:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 57 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.