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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 7, 1995Okfuskee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 7, 1995, 5:21 PM CDT for Okfuskee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 39 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 7, 1995, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 1995, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Okfuskee County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:25 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 7, 5:38 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Okemah, OK	A tornado touched down briefly three miles east southeast of Okemah at 1638CST. This F0 tornado damaged several homes and downed power lines.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 1311 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 503 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 072221
TORTUL
OKC107-072300-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
521 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
 
   ...OKFUSKEE COUNTY
 
AT 519 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
WELEETKA. MOVEMENT OF THE STORM WAS NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM
WILL LIKELY PASS IN THE VICINITY OF WEELTKA...OKEMAH AND PHAROAH.
 
RESIDENTS OF THESE COMMUNITIES SHOULD TAKE COVER NOW!
 
THIS STORM PRODUCED A TORNADO AT HOLDENVILLE AND YEAGER.
 
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.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 2:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	47 min
May 7, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	27 min
May 7, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	34 min
May 7, 3:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee	3 hr
May 7, 4:34 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	3 hr
May 7, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	57 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.