Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 59, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Oct 4, 1998, 7:35 PM CDT for Osage County, Pawnee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 40 min. 6 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 4, 1998, 7:35 PM CDT (00:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 1998, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Pawnee, OK | A tornado briefly touched down in the southwest part of the city of Pawnee at 738 PM CDT near 6th Street and Ash. The tornado travelled northeast for 0.4 miles and had a width of 125 yards. Many trees were downed or snapped along the path with about fifty ho |
| Oct 4, 7:39 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Pawnee, OK | Strong winds (known as a rear flank downdraft) associated with a nearby F1 tornado blew the roof off of the high school auditorium, causing over $1 million in damage to the high school. Debris was scattered throughout the high school campus. An adjacent meta |
| Oct 4, 7:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Pawnee, OK | With the passage of a thunderstorm containing a possible tornado just 0.4 miles south, the Pawnee mesonet site measured wind gusts in excess of 50 kts (57 mph) for over 20 minutes. The clockwise veering of such strong winds on this time scale clearly shows th |
| Oct 4, 8:04 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Cleveland, OK | |
| Oct 4, 8:05 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Osage, OK | |
| Oct 4, 8:05 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Osage, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 1746 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1456 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 419 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 28.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
091
WFUS54 KTSA 050037 RRA
TORTUL
OKC113-117-050115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
735 PM CDT SUN OCT 4 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR
PAWNEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
SOUTHERN OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 815 PM CDT
* AT 735 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES WEST
OF PAWNEE. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES PER
HOUR.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... RALSTON...
CLEVELAND...SKEDEE...BLACKBURN...MARAMEC...PAWNEE...FAIRFAX...
WYNONA...HOMINY...AND OSAGE
STORM SPOTTERS CONTINUE TO REPORT A LARGE WALL CLOUD WITH THIS STORM
AND A TORNADO COULD FORM AT ANY TIME.
IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
STRAIGHT LINE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. GO TO A SAFE
PLACE NOW
NIGHTTIME TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS - TAKE COVER NOW DO NOT
WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING - IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET A
SAFE PLACE
LAT...LON 3638 9700 3621 9693 3628 9612 3679 9635The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 45 min |
| Oct 4, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 48 min |
| Oct 4, 8:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 25 min |
| Oct 4, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek | 45 min |
| Oct 4, 8:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 51 min |
| Oct 4, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa, Washington | 29 min |
| Oct 4, 9:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 3 hr |
| Oct 4, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers | 34 min |
| Oct 4, 9:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 33 min |
| Oct 4, 9:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee | 50 min |
| Oct 4, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata, Rogers | 56 min |
| Oct 4, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 36 min |
| Oct 4, 10:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Tulsa, Washington | 43 min |
| Oct 4, 10:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata | 49 min |
| Oct 4, 10:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Rogers | 34 min |
| Oct 4, 10:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 48 min |
| Oct 4, 10:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Tulsa, Washington | 39 min |
| Oct 4, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okmulgee | 45 min |
| Oct 4, 10:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek, Okmulgee | 41 min |
| Oct 4, 10:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Rogers | 34 min |
| Oct 4, 11:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 38 min |
| Oct 4, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 36 min |
| Oct 4, 11:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Okmulgee | 51 min |
| Oct 4, 11:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 2 hr |
| Oct 4, 11:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa, Wagoner | 51 min |
| Oct 5, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 42 min |
| Oct 5, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee, Wagoner | 50 min |
| Oct 5, 12:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 2 hr |
| Oct 5, 12:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 2 hr |
| Oct 5, 12:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Wagoner | 29 min |
| Oct 5, 12:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 46 min |
| Oct 5, 12:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek, Okmulgee | 115 min |
| Oct 5, 12:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okmulgee | 52 min |
| Oct 5, 12:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware | 49 min |
| Oct 5, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 37 min |
| Oct 5, 1:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Wagoner | 51 min |
| Oct 5, 1:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 39 min |
| Oct 5, 1:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware | 41 min |
| Oct 5, 2:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 2:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek, Okmulgee, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers, Tulsa and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 2:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 2:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Nowata | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 3:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 26 min |
| Oct 5, 3:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 49 min |
| Oct 5, 4:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 4:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 4:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers, Washington | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 4:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 7:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Mayes, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Rogers, Tulsa and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 7:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 7:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Ottawa | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 7:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 10:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Haskell, McIntosh, Pittsburg | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 10:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 1:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pushmataha | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 1:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Haskell | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 1:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 1:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 1:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 61 min |
| Oct 5, 2:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 2 hr |
| Oct 5, 3:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 25 min |
| Oct 5, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 33 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.