Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 46, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 1997, 9:19 PM CDT for Okfuskee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 41 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, 9:19 PM CDT (02:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1997, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 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 02:22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 9:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Okfuskee, 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 00:00Z, 2.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3446 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1173 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 6.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 170220 RRA TORTUL OKC107-170300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 919 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 EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA ...EASTERN OKFUSKEE COUNTY AT 919 PM...RADAR AND SPOTTERS INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR MASON. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. 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. WATCH FOR SIGNS OF DEVELOPING STORMS. LARGE HAILSTONES AND UNUSUALLY LOW SWIRLING CLOUDS ARE MANY TIMES SEEN NEAR DEVELOPING TORNADOES. STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND TORNADOES OFTEN PRODUCE A LOUD ROARING SOUND THAT CAN BE HEARD IN THE VICINITY OF STORMS. FREQUENT AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING OCCURS WITH MOST SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 7:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Haskell, LeFlore | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 60 min |
| Jun 16, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 57 min |
| Jun 16, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 54 min |
| Jun 16, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 45 min |
| Jun 16, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 65 min |
| Jun 16, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg | 43 min |
| Jun 16, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers, Washington | 64 min |
| Jun 16, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 45 min |
| Jun 16, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 52 min |
| Jun 16, 8:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee | 51 min |
| Jun 16, 8:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 8:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore | 109 min |
| Jun 16, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 46 min |
| Jun 16, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata, Washington | 52 min |
| Jun 16, 9:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 61 min |
| Jun 16, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 44 min |
| Jun 16, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 41 min |
| Jun 16, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 40 min |
| Jun 16, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Wagoner | 59 min |
| Jun 16, 10:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg | 4 hr |
| Jun 16, 10:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore | 4 hr |
| Jun 16, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 11:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 2 hr |
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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.