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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 433, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 22, 2003, 6:58 PM CST for Latimer County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 47 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
- Dec 22, 2003, 6:58 PM CST (00:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 22, 2003, 7:45 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Latimer County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 22, 3:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 466 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KTSA 230058
SVRTUL
OKC077-230145-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
656 PM CST MON DEC 22 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
LATIMER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 745 PM CST
* AT 656 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
OVER HIGGINS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BENGAL. THIS
STORM WAS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATHS OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...WILBURTON...
HIGGINS...BENGAL...DAMON AND RED OAK.
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 3482 9547 3471 9536 3471 9508 3508 9492
3507 9520
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 22, 6:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Pittsburg | 40 min |
| Dec 22, 6:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg | 42 min |
| Dec 22, 6:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Wagoner | 41 min |
| Dec 22, 6:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 46 min |
| Dec 22, 7:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 35 min |
| Dec 22, 7:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 26 min |
| Dec 22, 7:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 26 min |
| Dec 22, 7:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 31 min |
| Dec 22, 8:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 49 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.