Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 38, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 1997, 6:17 PM CDT for Haskell County, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 43 min. 3 reports 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, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1997, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Haskell County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Enterprise, OK | |
| Jun 16, 7:00 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Whitefield, OK | |
| Jun 16, 7:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Whitefield, 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 2808 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 554 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 162319 RRA TORTUL OKC061-121-170000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 617 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...WESTERN HASKELL COUNTY...NORTHEASTERN PITTSBURG COUNTY AT 617 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 1 MILE NORTH OF EUFALA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. SPOTTERS HAVE CONFIRMED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL PASS OVER LAKE EUFALA. 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, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 43 min |
| Jun 16, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 51 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.