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Tornado Warning 57, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 16, 2003McIntosh County, Muskogee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 16, 2003, 1:51 PM CDT for McIntosh County, Muskogee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 54 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 16, 2003, 1:51 PM CDT (18:51 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 2003, 2:45 PM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 16, 12:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
May 16, 12:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 156 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2003-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 75 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2003-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 299 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
75 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-328 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
789 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
299 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
204 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

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

718 
WFUS54 KTSA 161851
TORTUL
OKC091-101-161945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
151 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN MUSKOGEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
  NORTHWESTERN MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 245 PM CDT

* AT 151 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM 18
  MILES WEST OF COUNCIL HILL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. STORM
  SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND THIS IS A LIFE
  THREATENING SITUATION...TAKE COVER NOW

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
  RENTIESVILLE...COUNCIL HILL...OKTAHA...KEEFETON...BOYNTON AND TAFT.

A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS
TORNADO...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 3533 9595 3538 9592 3539 9588 3547 9587
          3548 9582 3556 9582 3555 9571 3573 9571
          3574 9575 3582 9571 3581 9565 3578 9561
          3580 9550 3562 9523

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 2:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Osage, Pawnee98 min
May 16, 3:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSATulsa34 min
May 16, 3:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg69 min
May 16, 3:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington68 min
May 16, 4:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee, Wagoner55 min
May 16, 4:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa77 min
May 16, 4:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee, Haskell, LeFlore, McIntosh, Muskogee and 1 more91 min
May 16, 5:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWagoner30 min
May 16, 5:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAChoctaw, Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha56 min
May 16, 5:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSADelaware32 min
May 16, 6:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAChoctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh, Muskogee and 2 more62 min
May 16, 7:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAChoctaw, Pushmataha44 min
May 16, 9:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore, Pushmataha73 min
May 16, 1:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkfuskee59 min
May 16, 1:05 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAOkfuskee55 min
May 16, 1:26 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAOkmulgee64 min
May 16, 1:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg55 min
May 16, 1:54 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAPittsburg66 min
May 16, 2:10 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAMcIntosh65 min
May 16, 2:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALatimer, Pushmataha59 min
May 16, 2:26 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAOkmulgee34 min
May 16, 2:29 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAHaskell, Muskogee61 min
May 16, 2:35 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAMuskogee55 min
May 16, 2:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWagoner52 min
May 16, 2:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee48 min
May 16, 3:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALatimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha73 min
May 16, 3:18 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAMuskogee42 min
May 16, 3:21 PM CDTTornado WarningTSALatimer39 min
May 16, 3:22 PM CDTTornado WarningTSACherokee68 min
May 16, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, Sequoyah64 min
May 16, 3:34 PM CDTTornado WarningTSALeFlore56 min
May 16, 3:58 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAAdair62 min
May 16, 4:04 PM CDTTornado WarningTSASequoyah56 min
May 16, 4:31 PM CDTTornado WarningTSALeFlore59 min
May 16, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek46 min
May 16, 5:41 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSATulsa4 hr
May 16, 6:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAWashington4 hr
May 16, 6:11 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSACreek4 hr

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.