Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 111, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Dec 3, 1999, 11:51 PM CST for Craig County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 3, 1999, 11:51 PM CST (05:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 4, 1999, 12:30 AM CST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Craig County, OK
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 3, 8:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1329 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KTSA 040552 RRA TORTUL OKC035-040630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1151 PM CST FRI DEC 3 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN CRAIG COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 1230 AM CST * AT 1151 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION OVER VINITA. MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH...THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BLUEJACKET...WHITE OAK AND VINITA IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...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! 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!
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Dec 3, 8:55 PM CST, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 3, 8:55 PM CST, 2 hours 56 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 855 PM CST FRI DEC 3 1999 UPDATED ZONES TO INCLUDE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. SEVERE STORMS DEVELOPED QUaICKLY OVER FAR NORTHEAST OK AND HAVE PRODUCED DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL. GENERAL FORECAST LOOKS OKAY AND WILL NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES AT THIS TIME. FCSTID = 02 .TUL... AR...NONE. OK...NONE. ABBAS E
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 3, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 45 min |
| Dec 3, 8:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 28 min |
| Dec 3, 8:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 40 min |
| Dec 3, 8:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 49 min |
| Dec 3, 8:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers | 50 min |
| Dec 3, 8:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 61 min |
| Dec 3, 8:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 61 min |
| Dec 3, 8:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 40 min |
| Dec 3, 9:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 52 min |
| Dec 3, 9:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 43 min |
| Dec 3, 9:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 51 min |
| Dec 3, 10:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Delaware, Ottawa | 41 min |
| Dec 3, 10:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 50 min |
| Dec 3, 10:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 46 min |
| Dec 3, 10:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 62 min |
| Dec 3, 10:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa | 49 min |
| Dec 3, 11:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 55 min |
| Dec 3, 11:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Craig, Mayes, Rogers | 34 min |
| Dec 3, 11:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Tulsa, Wagoner | 31 min |
| Dec 3, 11:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 51 min |
| Dec 3, 11:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 48 min |
| Dec 4, 12:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 49 min |
| Dec 4, 12:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 46 min |
| Dec 4, 8:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 49 min |
| Dec 4, 10:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 42 min |
| Dec 4, 10:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee | 43 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.