Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 375, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2003, 10:26 PM CDT for Rogers County, Tulsa County, Washington County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 64 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 5, 2003, 10:26 PM CDT (03:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2003, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 2285 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1305 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
409 WUUS54 KTSA 060326 CCA SVRTUL OKC131-143-147-060430- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1023 PM CDT TUE AUG 5 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTERN ROGERS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA NORTHERN TULSA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 1130 PM CDT * AT 1023 PM CDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 70 MPH WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RAMONA TO 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF TALALA...MOVING SOUTH AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... VERA...RAMONA...OCHELATA... CATOOSA...VERDIGRIS...OOLOGAH...TALALA...OWASSO...SPERRY AND COLLINSVILLE. DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS...MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE NOW. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE ESPECIALLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO HIGH WINDS AND MAY BE OVERTURNED. DAMAGING WINDS MAY OCCUR UP TO 20 MILES AHEAD OF THE HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL...MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE NOW. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE ESPECIALLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO HIGH WINDS AND MAY BE OVERTURNED. LAT...LON 3663 9599 3662 9567 3617 9570 3618 9600 $$
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 5, 9:43 PM CDT, 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 9:43 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA 940 CDT TUE AUG 5 2003 STRONG CONVECTION WHICH DEVELOPED IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS EARLIER IN THE EVENING IS JUST NOW ENCROACHING ON THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY OF THE CWA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CURRENTLY COVERS OUR NORTHERN TIER OF COUNTIES. HAVE ALREADY SENT OUT A QUICK UPDATE EARLIER TO ADD THE WATCH. WILL SEND OUT ANOTHER UPDATE SHORTLY TO INCREASE POPS ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF FA OVERNIGHT. FORECAST ID= 06 .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 5, 9:33 AM CDT, 12 hours 53 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-061100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 933 AM CDT TUE AUG 5 2003 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...TODAY ...SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY... WEAK SURFACE LOW PRESSURE IN WESTERN OKLAHOMA THIS MORNING WILL MEANDER SOUTHEAST TODAY AND TONIGHT. INTERSECTING SURFACE BOUNDARIES FROM SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT...COULD INDUCE MID TO LATE AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS...LASTING INTO THE EVENING. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IS ABUNDANT...HOWEVER ONCE AN UPPER LEVEL SHORT WAVE CLEARS THE REGION THIS MORNING...UPPER SUPPORT WILL BECOME NEGLIGIBLE AS MID LEVELS REMAIN CAPPED. THE GREATEST LIKELIHOOD FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE EXTREME EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRALS ARKANSAS. 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 THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE IN NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS WEDNESDAY...WITH ONLY ISOLATED THUNDER POSSIBLE IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA. THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK WILL BE DRY. .SPOTTER / EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT... WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Ottawa | 60 min |
| Aug 5, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 66 min |
| Aug 5, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa, Washington | 66 min |
| Aug 5, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 58 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.