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Tornado Warning 57, NWS Tulsa, OK

October 25, 1997Muskogee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Oct 25, 1997, 2:40 PM CDT for Muskogee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 35 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: Oct 25, 1997, 2:40 PM CDT (19:40 UTC)
Expired: Oct 25, 1997, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Muskogee County, OK

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 25, 2:47 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Muskogee, OK
Oct 25, 2:47 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Muskogee, OK	Severe thunderstorms developed in eastern Oklahoma during the early afternoon of October 25th. Strong thunderstorm winds destroyed 1 barn and caused major damage to several other buildings along State Highway 9 just east of Whitefield. A few cars were damaged
Oct 25, 2:47 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Muskogee, 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 188 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 251941 RRA
TORTUL
OKC101-252015-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
240 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
 
   ...EASTERN MUSKOGEE COUNTY
 
AT 240 PM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST
SOUTH OF MUSKOGEE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE MOST INTENSE PART
OF THE STORM WILL PASS BETWEEN FT. GIBSON AND BRAGGS.
 
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
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, 2:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Latimer	34 min
Oct 25, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer	38 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

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.