Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 37, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 1997, 6:02 PM CDT for LeFlore County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 43 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
- Jun 16, 1997, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1997, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County LeFlore County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 6:10 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Spiro, OK |
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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 237 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 870 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -217 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
695 WFUS1 KTUL 162304 RRA TORTUL OKC079-162345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 602 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...NORTHERN LE FLORE COUNTY AT 600 PM...NWS RADAR DETECTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPIRO NEAR BOKOSHE. SPOTTERS HAVE INDICATED A WALL CLOUD WEST OF PANAMA TTHIS STORM. MOVEMENT IS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. STONY POINT AND SPIRO 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 1:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 53 min |
| Jun 16, 1:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 29 min |
| Jun 16, 2:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 52 min |
| Jun 16, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 45 min |
| Jun 16, 7:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 31 min |
| Jun 16, 7:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 44 min |
| Jun 16, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 51 min |
| Jun 16, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer | 29 min |
| Jun 16, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 44 min |
| Jun 16, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 53 min |
| Jun 16, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 45 min |
| Jun 16, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer | 56 min |
| Jun 16, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 51 min |
| Jun 16, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell, Pittsburg | 43 min |
| Jun 16, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 40 min |
| Jun 16, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 52 min |
| Jun 16, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell | 46 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.