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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 4, 2003Pittsburg County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 2003, 4:37 PM CDT for Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 38 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: May 4, 2003, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 2003, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pittsburg County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 4, 12:35 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 1741 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 724 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 341 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 365 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.2
Supercell composite: 31.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KTSA 042137
SVRTUL
OKC121-042215-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
437 PM CDT SUN MAY 4 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PITTSBURG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 437 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4
  MILES NORTHEAST OF ASHLAND...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...MCALESTER...
  BLANCO...ASHLAND...SAVANNA...HARTSHORNE...HAYWOOD...ALDERSON...
  KREBS AND BLOCKER.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKLES AND WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED 
IN THE WARNED AREA. STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE 
STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3503 9608 3472 9611 3476 9550 3509 9550

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Washington	67 min
May 4, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh	66 min
May 4, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	64 min
May 4, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Washington	53 min
May 4, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee, Okmulgee	51 min
May 4, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Washington	48 min
May 4, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Nowata	47 min
May 4, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Wagoner	45 min
May 4, 4:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Nowata	37 min
May 4, 5:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	57 min
May 4, 5:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Craig	36 min
May 4, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Mayes	47 min
May 4, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	50 min
May 4, 5:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Latimer	65 min
May 4, 5:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Craig, Ottawa	37 min
May 4, 5:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	LeFlore	63 min
May 4, 6:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Ottawa	42 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.