Tornado Warning 28, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

May 26, 1997, 8:55 PM CDT (01:55 UTC)

Expired

May 26, 1997, 9:45 PM CDT

In force

50 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties

County Craig County, OK

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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995 
WFUS1 KTUL 270157 RRA
TORTUL
OKC035-270245-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
855 PM CDT MON MAY 26 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...CRAIG COUNTY
 
AT 854 PM A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS DEVELOPING 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
CENTRALIA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
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.

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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.