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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 2003, 3:57 PM CDT for Creek County, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 2003, 3:57 PM CDT (20:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2003, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Creek County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 274 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 680 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 395 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KTSA 192057 TORTUL OKC037-111-192130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 357 PM CDT SAT APR 19 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN CREEK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA NORTHWESTERN OKMULGEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 357 PM CDT STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTH OF SLICK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE BEGGS...SLICK AND MOUNDS. IF YOU ARE 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 LAT...LON 3566 9643 3553 9627 3578 9593 3594 9613
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 4:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 35 min |
| Apr 19, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 61 min |
| Apr 19, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 48 min |
| Apr 19, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek, Okmulgee, Tulsa | 46 min |
| Apr 19, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 58 min |
| Apr 19, 4:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek, Okmulgee, Tulsa | 43 min |
| Apr 19, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Wagoner | 63 min |
| Apr 19, 5:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 39 min |
| Apr 19, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 50 min |
| Apr 19, 5:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 51 min |
| Apr 19, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Washington | 40 min |
| Apr 19, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 38 min |
| Apr 19, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 50 min |
| Apr 19, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 31 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.