Tornado Warning 47, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

Jun 18, 1998, 8:14 PM CDT (01:14 UTC)

Expired

Jun 18, 1998, 9:00 PM CDT

In force

46 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties

County McIntosh County, OK

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

980 
WFUS54 KTSA 190115 RRA
TORTUL
OKC091-190200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
814 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  MCINTOSH COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 812 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION NEAR STIDHAM...MOVING
  EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...
  FAME
  EUFAULA
  LAKE EUFAULA
  STIDHAM

TAKE SHELTER NOW DONT 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. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND AUTOMOBILES FOR
MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AS A LAST RESORT TAKE COVER IN A DITCH.

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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.