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Tornado Warning 59, NWS Tulsa, OK

October 25, 1997Haskell County, Latimer County, LeFlore County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Oct 25, 1997, 2:58 PM CDT for Haskell County, Latimer County, LeFlore County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 25, 1997, 2:58 PM CDT (19:58 UTC)
Expired: Oct 25, 1997, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK

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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 218 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 251959 RRA
TORTUL
OKC061-077-079-252045-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
258 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN HASKELL COUNTY...EASTERN LATIMER COUNTY
   ...LE FLORE COUNTY
 
AT 256 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED TWO POSSIBLE TORNADIC STORMS. THE
FIRST WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTH OF RED OAK. THE SECOND STORM WAS
LOCATED OVER BENGAL. BOTH STORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
SUMMERFIELD AND CALHOUN ARE IN THE PATHS OF THESE STORMS.
 
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, 2:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Muskogee	35 min
Oct 25, 2:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee	28 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.