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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 4, 2003, 5:03 PM CDT for Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 57 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
- May 4, 2003, 5:03 PM CDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2003, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pittsburg County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 12:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 1741 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 724 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 341 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 365 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 31.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KTSA 042203 TORTUL OKC121-042300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 503 PM CDT SUN MAY 4 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN PITTSBURG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 503 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 5 MILES WEST OF KIOWA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...KIOWA... BLANCO...SAVANNA AND HARTSHORNE. 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 3485 9607 3460 9606 3463 9555 3492 9550
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 67 min |
| May 4, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 66 min |
| May 4, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 64 min |
| May 4, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 53 min |
| May 4, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 51 min |
| May 4, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 48 min |
| May 4, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 38 min |
| May 4, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata | 47 min |
| May 4, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Wagoner | 45 min |
| May 4, 4:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Nowata | 37 min |
| May 4, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Craig | 36 min |
| May 4, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Mayes | 47 min |
| May 4, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 50 min |
| May 4, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Latimer | 65 min |
| May 4, 5:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Craig, Ottawa | 37 min |
| May 4, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 63 min |
| May 4, 6:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 42 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.