Tornado Warning 45, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

Jun 16, 1997, 9:10 PM CDT (02:10 UTC)

Expired

Jun 16, 1997, 10:00 PM CDT

In force

50 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties

County Okmulgee County, OK

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:12 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.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 170212 RRA
TORTUL
OKC111-170300-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
910 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...SOUTHERN OKMULGEE COUNTY
 
AT 908 PM...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF
OKFUSKEE MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. OKFUSKEE IN OKFUSKEE COUNTY
AND THE OKMULGEE STATE PARK ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.  SPOTTERS
HAVE REPORTED A ROTATING WALL CLOUD WITH 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.

Tornado Warnings in Oklahoma, 1997Every tornado warning in 1997Tornadoes in 1997

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.