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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 8, 2003Creek County, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2003, 6:01 PM CDT for Creek County, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 59 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, 6:01 PM CDT (23:01 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2003, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Creek County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 8, 1:35 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
May 8, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 78 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: 2594 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 646 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 213 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.1
Supercell composite: 11.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KTSA 082301
TORTUL
OKC037-107-090000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
600 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  NORTHERN OKFUSKEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA   
  CREEK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 600 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 22
  MILES WEST OF PADEN. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...CASTLE...
  PADEN...BOLEY...OKFUSKEE...WELTY...BRISTOW...SLICK...DEPEW AND
  SHAMROCK.

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

THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE NEAR ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...VIOLENT STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AND
POSSIBLY A TORNADO. IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE TAKE COVER
ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3561 9707 3545 9700 3548 9618 3611 9631

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, 6:04 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	LeFlore	56 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, 6:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	54 min
May 8, 6:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage	67 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.