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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 6, 1998Pittsburg County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 6, 1998, 8:30 PM CDT for Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 45 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: May 6, 1998, 8:30 PM CDT (01:30 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 1998, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Pittsburg County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:31 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
May 6, 8:32 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Quinton, OK	A brief tornado touchdown in Quinton knocked power lines down. There are no known injuries with this tornado. The parent storm produced a tornado 4 miles southwest of Quinton just five minutes earlier.

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
May 6, 8:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 1000 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1337 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 5.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 070130 RRA
TORTUL
OKC121-070215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
830 PM CDT WED MAY 6 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  NORTHEASTERN PITTSBURG COUNTY - SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 827 PM... EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO
4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF QUINTON. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST
AT 20 MPH.

* THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THE TORNADO...
  QUINTON

TAKE SHELTER NOW! DON'T WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING! MOVE
TO AN UNDERGROUND SHELTER OR TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR.

THE SAFEST PLACE IN A TORNADO IS BELOW GROUND. IF A BASEMENT OR
STORM CELLAR IS NOT AVAILABLE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR. GET UNDER SOMETHING STURDY AND USE BLANKETS AND
PILLOWS TO PROTECT YOUR HEAD AND BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS. AVOID
WINDOWS AND LARGE ROOMS. ABANDDON MOBILE HOMES AND AUTOMOBILES FOR
MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AS A LAST RESORT TAKE COVER IN A DITCH.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	54 min
May 6, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell	80 min
May 6, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	58 min
May 6, 7:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair	29 min
May 6, 8:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair	25 min
May 6, 8:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Haskell	36 min
May 6, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Okmulgee	33 min
May 6, 8:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	45 min
May 6, 8:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	LeFlore	42 min
May 6, 8:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Muskogee	26 min
May 6, 8:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	LeFlore	34 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.