Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 2003, 10:58 PM CDT for Haskell County, Latimer County, Pittsburg 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
- Apr 23, 2003, 10:58 PM CDT (03:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2003, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -184 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 385 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 487 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
942
WUUS54 KTSA 240358
SVRTUL
OKC061-077-121-240445-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1058 PM CDT WED APR 23 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
HASKELL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
LATIMER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
EASTERN PITTSBURG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 1145 PM CDT
* AT 1058 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF CROWDER TO 6 MILES
NORTHWEST OF HARTSHORNE TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HARTSHORNE...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...STIGLER...
LEQUIRE...KINTA...MC CURTAIN...ENTERPRISE...WHITEFIELD...
WILBURTON...HIGGINS...DAMON...RED OAK...HARTSHORNE...BLOCKER...
CROWDER...QUINTON AND CANADIAN.
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 3519 9578 3489 9568 3468 9577 3488 9501
3517 9492 3534 9502The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 41 min |
| Apr 23, 10:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 39 min |
| Apr 23, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 41 min |
| Apr 24, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Osage, Washington | 60 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.