Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 39, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 4, 1999, 1:01 AM CDT for Osage County, Pawnee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 44 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
- May 4, 1999, 1:01 AM CDT (06:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 1999, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 1:32 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Hominy, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 4, 12:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 2379 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 818 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 329 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.4
- Supercell composite
- 13.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999
WFUS54 KTSA 040606 RRA
TORTUL
OKC113-117-040645-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
101 AM CDT TUE MAY 4 1999
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR
OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
PAWNEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 145 AM CDT
* AT 101 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG
ROTATION 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARAMEC. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WITH STRONG ROTATION WAS LOCATED 10 MILES WEST OF FAIRFAX. THESE
STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... CLEVELAND...
SKEDEE...BLACKBURN...MARAMEC...HALLETT...SKIATOOK...BARNSDALL...
WYNONA...AVANT...HOMINY AND OSAGE
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
LAT...LON 3641 9678 3617 9681 3620 9632 3648 9584
3678 9584The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 46 min |
| May 3, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 61 min |
| May 3, 10:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek | 53 min |
| May 3, 11:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 37 min |
| May 3, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 49 min |
| May 3, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 41 min |
| May 3, 11:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 43 min |
| May 3, 11:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 50 min |
| May 3, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 47 min |
| May 3, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 47 min |
| May 3, 11:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 38 min |
| May 3, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Mayes, Rogers | 47 min |
| May 4, 12:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 50 min |
| May 4, 12:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Rogers | 57 min |
| May 4, 12:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 35 min |
| May 4, 1:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Wagoner | 51 min |
| May 4, 1:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 33 min |
| May 4, 1:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 43 min |
| May 4, 1:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 39 min |
| May 4, 1:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 33 min |
| May 4, 2:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 41 min |
| May 4, 2:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 32 min |
| May 4, 2:36 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 39 min |
| May 4, 2:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 52 min |
| May 4, 2:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Delaware | 44 min |
| May 4, 3:11 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Adair | 34 min |
| May 4, 7:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 34 min |
| May 4, 7:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Latimer | 40 min |
| May 4, 7:54 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 66 min |
| May 4, 8:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 38 min |
| May 4, 9:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 56 min |
| May 4, 10:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 43 min |
| May 4, 10:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 51 min |
| May 4, 10:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 49 min |
| May 4, 11:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 60 min |
| May 4, 11:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Pushmataha | 47 min |
| May 4, 11:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington | 4 hr |
| May 4, 11:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata | 4 hr |
| May 4, 11:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Latimer | 46 min |
| May 4, 11:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 57 min |
| May 4, 11:48 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell, LeFlore | 42 min |
| May 4, 11:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 48 min |
| May 4, 12:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell, Sequoyah | 54 min |
| May 4, 12:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Adair | 46 min |
| May 4, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee | 51 min |
| May 4, 1:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg | 3 hr |
| May 4, 1:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 3 hr |
| May 4, 1:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Mayes, Wagoner | 3 hr |
| May 4, 1:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Latimer | 3 hr |
| May 4, 1:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Delaware, Ottawa | 3 hr |
| May 4, 1:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer | 46 min |
| May 4, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 40 min |
| May 4, 1:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 67 min |
| May 4, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee | 39 min |
| May 4, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer | 46 min |
| May 4, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 51 min |
| May 4, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 51 min |
Nearby
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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.