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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 8, 2006Choctaw County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 2006, 9:22 PM CST for Choctaw County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 28 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 8, 2006, 9:22 PM CST (03:22 UTC)
Expired: Mar 8, 2006, 9:50 PM CST
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Choctaw County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 189 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:23 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 nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 734 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1286 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KTSA 090322
SVRTSA
OKC023-090415-
/O.NEW.KTSA.SV.W.0021.060309T0322Z-060309T0415Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
922 PM CST WED MAR 8 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1015 PM CST

* AT 917 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKELS SIZE HAIL AND WINDS
  TO 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES WEST OF BOSWELL...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BOSWELL...
  SOPER...KENT AND MESSER.

STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3401 9620 3385 9610 3417 9517 3417 9596

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KTSA 090350
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
951 PM CST WED MAR 8 2006

OKC023-090401-
/O.CAN.KTSA.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-060309T0415Z/
CHOCTAW OK-
951 PM CST WED MAR 8 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CHOCTAW COUNTY HAS BEEN
CANCELLED...

THE THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...THEREFORE THE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

TO REPORT PREVIOUS HAIL OR WIND DAMAGE...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FORECAST OFFICE IN TULSA.

LAT...LON 3401 9620 3385 9610 3417 9517 3417 9596

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 8, 8:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	51 min
Mar 8, 10:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	60 min
Mar 8, 11:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	LeFlore	33 min
Mar 9, 12:52 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Pittsburg	58 min
Mar 9, 1:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Muskogee	73 min
Mar 9, 1:40 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, LeFlore, Sequoyah	61 min
Mar 9, 2:06 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	LeFlore	32 min
Mar 9, 4:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell	32 min
Mar 9, 4:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	35 min
Mar 9, 12:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg	66 min
Mar 9, 12:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	53 min
Mar 9, 1:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	54 min
Mar 9, 1:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	14 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2006 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.