Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 36, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1998, 9:55 PM CDT for Haskell County, Latimer County, LeFlore County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 65 min. 7 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
- Jun 8, 1998, 9:55 PM CDT (02:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1998, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:55 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 8, 9:55 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Kinta, OK | An F2 tornado destroyed one single family dwelling, while another single family dwelling received major damage. |
| Jun 8, 10:46 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Panama, OK | |
| Jun 8, 10:55 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Spiro, OK | |
| Jun 8, 10:56 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Panama, OK | |
| Jun 8, 10:56 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Shady Pt, OK | |
| Jun 8, 11:08 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Shady Pt, OK | |
| Jun 8, 11:09 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Poteau, 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 8, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2377 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1123 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 11.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
895 WFUS54 KTSA 090254 RRA TORTUL OKC061-077-079-090400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 955 PM CDT MON JUN 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HASKELL COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA EXTREME NORTHERN LATIMER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA NORTHERN LE FLORE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT * AT 950 PM CDT... STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR KINTA. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. LARGE HAIL WILL LIKELY PRECEDE THE TORNADO. * THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO... KINTA LEQUIRE MCCURTAIN MILTON 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. ABANDON 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 51 min |
| Jun 8, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Pittsburg | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 8:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 51 min |
| Jun 8, 8:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 39 min |
| Jun 8, 8:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell, McIntosh, Pittsburg | 70 min |
| Jun 8, 9:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Latimer | 50 min |
| Jun 8, 9:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Haskell, Pittsburg | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee | 44 min |
| Jun 8, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 48 min |
| Jun 8, 10:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 47 min |
| Jun 8, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 42 min |
| Jun 8, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee | 49 min |
| Jun 9, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 51 min |
| Jun 9, 12:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 2 hr |
| Jun 9, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee | 49 min |
| Jun 9, 12:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 1:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 51 min |
| Jun 9, 1:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 48 min |
| Jun 9, 1:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 34 min |
| Jun 9, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.