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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 6, 2003Muskogee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2003, 4:39 PM CDT for Muskogee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 66 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 6, 2003, 4:39 PM CDT (21:39 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2003, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Muskogee County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 6, 11:40 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 172 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 236 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -453 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2191 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KTSA 062139
TORTUL
OKC101-062245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
438 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  MUSKOGEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 438 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER
  COUNCIL HILL. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...MUSKOGEE...
  COUNCIL HILL...OKTAHA...BOYNTON...BRAGGS AND TAFT.

STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL IN THAT AREA. 

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT WAS IN 
EFFECT FOR MUSKOGEE COUNTY. 

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 TORNADO THREAT...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT
LINE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW

LAT...LON 3555 9578 3552 9568 3553 9555 3565 9518
          3590 9541

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	45 min
May 6, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh	55 min
May 6, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Wagoner	52 min
May 6, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	70 min
May 6, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Pittsburg	87 min
May 6, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers	56 min
May 6, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware, Ottawa	58 min
May 6, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig	64 min
May 6, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	50 min
May 6, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	62 min
May 6, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	45 min
May 6, 5:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	52 min
May 6, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Muskogee, Pittsburg	81 min
May 6, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	88 min
May 6, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	77 min
May 6, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	41 min
May 6, 6:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair	34 min
May 6, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	72 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.