Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 56, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Oct 25, 1997, 2:11 PM CDT for Latimer County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 34 min. 4 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
- Oct 25, 1997, 2:11 PM CDT (19:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 1997, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Latimer County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 2:25 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Wilburton, OK | |
| Oct 25, 2:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilburton, OK | |
| Oct 25, 2:29 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Wilburton, OK | |
| Oct 25, 2:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilburton, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -513 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1538 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 251912 RRA TORTUL OKC077-251945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 211 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...LATIMER COUNTY AT 208 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO JUST SOUTH OF HIGGINS. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL PASS JUST SOUTH OF HIGGINS INTO THE DAMON AREA BY 240 PM. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 1:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 38 min |
| Oct 25, 2:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee | 29 min |
| Oct 25, 2:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer | 27 min |
| Oct 25, 2:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee | 39 min |
| Oct 25, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer | 38 min |
| Oct 25, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 35 min |
| Oct 25, 2:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 28 min |
| Oct 25, 2:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore | 47 min |
| Oct 25, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 31 min |
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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.