Tornado Warning 49, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

Jun 18, 1998, 8:53 PM CDT (01:53 UTC)

Expired

Jun 18, 1998, 9:30 PM CDT

In force

37 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties

County Latimer County, 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.

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 190153 RRA
TORTUL
OKC077-190230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  LATIMER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 850 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  POSSIBLE TORNADO 8 MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST OF HIGGINS...MOVING EAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...
  HIGGINS
  YANUSH

NIGHTTIME TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS - TAKE SHELTER NOW! DO
NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING - IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO
GET TO A SAFE PLACE.

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.

Tornado Warnings in Oklahoma, 1998Every tornado warning in 1998Tornadoes in 1998

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.