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Tornado Warning 66, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Oct 4, 1998, 10:02 PM CDT for Tulsa County, Washington County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 43 min. 1 report 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, 10:02 PM CDT (03:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 1998, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Tulsa County, OK, Washington County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 10:19 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Collinsville, OK | Several spotters reported a brief tornado touchdown in a rural area. |
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, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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.
000
TTAA00 KTUL 050304 RRA
TORTUL
OKC143-147-050345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1002 PM CDT SUN OCT 4 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR
NORTHERN TULSA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT
* AT 1002 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG
ROTATION 5 MILES WEST OF SKIATOOK. MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES PER
HOUR...THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
COLLINSVILLE...SKIATOOK...SPERRY...RAMONA AND VERA
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!
IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER NOW! IF
NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS!
LAT...LON 3636 9611 3627 9602 3628 9582 3661 9582
3654 9601The 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, 8:12 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, 10:11 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.