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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 366, NWS Tulsa, OK

August 3, 2003Creek County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2003, 4:59 AM CDT for Creek County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 61 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, 4:59 AM CDT (09:59 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2003, 6:00 AM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Creek County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:59 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.

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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 128 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2235 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -113 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1791 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 125 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 5.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

495 
WUUS54 KTSA 030959
SVRTUL
OKC037-031100-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
458 AM CDT SUN AUG 3 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CREEK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 600 AM CDT

* AT 458 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
  A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES WEST OF MANNFORD TO 8 MILES NORTH OF
  KELLYVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...MANNFORD...
  BRISTOW AND KELLYVILLE.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS 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 3617 9661 3611 9617 3581 9604 3581 9643

$$

The 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, 4:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Sequoyah	56 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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2003 Every 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.