Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 421, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 18, 2003, 12:09 PM CST for Mayes County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 51 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
- Nov 18, 2003, 12:09 PM CST (18:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 18, 2003, 1:00 PM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mayes County, OK
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 18, 10:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 357 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 576 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KTSA 181809 SVRTUL OKC097-181900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK ISSUED BY NWS NORMAN OK 1209 PM CST TUE NOV 18 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MAYES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 100 PM CST * AT 1209 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PRYOR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ADAIR...CHOUTEAU...LANGLEY... PENSACOLA...PRYOR...SALINA AND SPAVINAW HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF HALF DOLLARS IS LIKELY. LAT...LON 3642 9544 3617 9540 3622 9503 3651 9505 $$ WR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 18, 9:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 34 min |
| Nov 18, 10:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 28 min |
| Nov 18, 10:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee | 39 min |
| Nov 18, 10:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Wagoner | 24 min |
| Nov 18, 10:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 41 min |
| Nov 18, 10:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 25 min |
| Nov 18, 10:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 42 min |
| Nov 18, 10:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 34 min |
| Nov 18, 10:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 52 min |
| Nov 18, 10:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 47 min |
| Nov 18, 11:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 34 min |
| Nov 18, 11:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes, Rogers | 45 min |
| Nov 18, 11:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 49 min |
| Nov 18, 12:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 38 min |
| Nov 18, 12:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 27 min |
| Nov 18, 12:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 40 min |
| Nov 18, 1:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 44 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.