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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 19, 2003Creek County, Okmulgee County, Tulsa County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 2003, 4:47 PM CDT for Creek County, Okmulgee County, Tulsa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 43 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: Apr 19, 2003, 4:47 PM CDT (21:47 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 2003, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Creek County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Tulsa County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 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
Apr 19, 2:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 146 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: 274 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -192 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 680 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 395 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.5

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KTSA 192147 CCA
TORTUL
OKC037-111-143-192230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
444 PM CDT SAT APR 19 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN CREEK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  NORTHERN OKMULGEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  SOUTHERN TULSA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 444 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM 2
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOUNDS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. LAW
  ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND THIS IS A
  LIFE THREATENING SITUATION...TAKE COVER NOW

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...BIXBY...
  GLENPOOL...MOUNDS AND KIEFER.

AT 440 PM SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD ALMOST TO THE GROUND 
NEAR MOUNDS.

DO NOT TAKE SHELTER UNDER HIGHWAY OVERPASSES THEY OFFER NO
PROTECTION FROM VIOLENT WINDS. BLOCKING THE ROAD WILL PREVENT OTHERS
FROM REACHING SAFE SHELTER.

LAT...LON 3595 9619 3578 9617 3580 9578 3604 9577

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 19, 3:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Creek, Okmulgee	33 min
Apr 19, 4:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Tulsa	35 min
Apr 19, 4:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage, Washington	61 min
Apr 19, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	48 min
Apr 19, 4:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Creek, Okmulgee, Tulsa	46 min
Apr 19, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	58 min
Apr 19, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers, Wagoner	63 min
Apr 19, 5:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	39 min
Apr 19, 5:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	50 min
Apr 19, 5:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage	51 min
Apr 19, 5:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Washington	40 min
Apr 19, 6:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Nowata, Washington	38 min
Apr 19, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	50 min
Apr 19, 6:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	31 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.