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Tornado Warning 41, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2003, 6:04 AM CDT for LeFlore County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 56 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 8, 2003, 6:04 AM CDT (11:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2003, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County LeFlore County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:07 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 8, 3:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 1810 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KTSA 081104 TORTUL OKC079-081200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 604 AM CDT THU MAY 8 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR LE FLORE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 700 AM CDT * AT 604 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FANSHAWE. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...POTEAU... FANSHAWE...HOWE...WISTER AND CAMERON. 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 LAT...LON 3498 9510 3481 9503 3494 9439 3517 9448
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 50 min |
| May 8, 3:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 55 min |
| May 8, 4:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 55 min |
| May 8, 4:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer | 63 min |
| May 8, 5:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 41 min |
| May 8, 5:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore | 49 min |
| May 8, 6:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 34 min |
| May 8, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 55 min |
| May 8, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee | 59 min |
| May 8, 6:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 54 min |
| May 8, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 67 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.