Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 60, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Oct 4, 1998, 8:12 PM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 48 min. 4 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
- Oct 4, 1998, 8:12 PM CDT (01:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 1998, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Osage County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 8:44 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Hominy, OK | Winds of 60 to 80 mph reported in Hominy. |
| Oct 4, 8:47 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Osage, OK | |
| Oct 4, 8:56 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Barnsdall, OK | An F0 tornado skipped across southern Osage County just south of Barnsdall. Four homes received minor damage. However, three barns were completely destroyed, two outbuildings were destroyed, and numerous trees had 12-inch tree limbs knocked out of them. |
| Oct 4, 9:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnsdall, OK | Two mobile homes were destroyed, and one home was damaged. Two people were injured in this incident. The location was 2 miles west of Ochelata just inside Osage County. The Washington County Emergency Management Director reported that the damage pattern was |
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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The 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, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 40 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.