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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 12, 2003Craig County, Ottawa County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 2003, 10:25 PM CST for Craig County, Ottawa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 50 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: Mar 12, 2003, 10:25 PM CST (04:25 UTC)
Expired: Mar 12, 2003, 11:15 PM CST
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Craig County, OK, Ottawa County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Mar 12, 8:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 1109 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1150 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

470 
WUUS54 KTSA 130425
SVRTUL
OKC035-115-130515-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1023 PM CST WED MAR 12 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN CRAIG COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  NORTHERN OTTAWA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 1115 PM CST

* AT 1023 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 19  
  MILES NORTHWEST OF WELCH...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. OTHER
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE KANSAS BORDER WILL ALSO BE MOVING
  INTO THE NORTHERN PARTS OF CRAIG AND OTTAWA COUNTIES.  

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...MIAMI...
  COMMERCE...QUAPAW...PICHER AND WELCH.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF HALF DOLLARS 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 3699 9463 3679 9462 3688 9527 3691 9543
          3695 9541 3699 9541

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 12, 8:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pawnee	38 min
Mar 12, 10:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	60 min
Mar 12, 11:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Ottawa	46 min
Mar 12, 11:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	52 min
Mar 12, 11:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh	47 min
Mar 13, 12:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	48 min
Mar 13, 1:01 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	44 min
Mar 13, 1:26 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw	49 min
Mar 13, 1:36 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	54 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.