Tornado Warning 36, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

May 6, 1994, 11:15 PM CDT (04:15 UTC)

Expired

May 7, 1994, 12:15 AM CDT

In force

60 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties

Counties Creek County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:18 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.

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 070417
TORTUL
OKC107-037-070515-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1115 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONSS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
 
   ...NORTHERN OKFUSKEE COUNTY
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...SOUTHERN CREEK COUNTY
 
AT 1115 PM...RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF BRISTOW.
THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE TOWNS OF
WELTY AND OKFUSKEE ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE.
OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.
STAY AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND
MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET IN A GROUND DEPRESSION.
 
KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at May 6, 9:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
900 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 1994

TOR WATCH JUST EXTENDED INTO FA OVRNIGHT AND WILL EXTEND FFA FURTHER
S TO COVER SLOW MOVING INTENSE CONVECTION. SVRL TOR HAVE BEEN RPTD
WITH STORMS AND 2 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN IN SOME LOCS ALONG KS BORDER.
SOME WAA AT H7 MOVING INTO FA BUT DONT THINK IT WILL AFFECT ONGOING
CONVECTION WITH UVV INCREASING AS H5 S/W APPROACHES. SFC FNT WILL
CONT TO SAG SLOWLY SOUTH BUT HAS MADE LTL PROGRESS INTO FA THIS EVE
AS SFC PRESS HAS BEEN FALLING FASTER AHEAD OF FNT THAN PRESS IS RISING
BEHIND. /13
.TUL...FFA ZNS 54>67 OVERNIGHT.

In the hours before

OKZ054>077-071200-

EASTERN OKLAHOMA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
537 PM CDT FRI MAY 7 1994

SHORT TERM UPDATE...

THE WIND PROFILE HAS BECOMING INCREASINGLY FAVORABLE FOR SUPERRCELL
THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN WASHINGTON AND NOWATA COUNTIES.  THE
STORM IN NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY WILL HAVE INCREASING POTENTIAL
TO PRODUCE A TORNADO WAS IT CONTINUES TO DEVELOP AND MOVE EAST INTO
NOWATA COUNTY.

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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.