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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Tulsa, OK

January 12, 2005Adair County, Choctaw County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 12, 2005, 4:43 PM CST for Adair County, Choctaw County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 39 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 12, 2005, 4:43 PM CST (22:43 UTC)
Expired: Feb 21, 2005, 2:15 AM CST
In force: 39 days
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Adair County, OK, Choctaw County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 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
Jan 12, 3:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr
Jan 12, 3:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 145 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -298 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1135 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 453 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 456 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KTSA 122243
SVRTSA
OKC023-122330-
/X.NEW.KTSA.SV.W.0002.050112T2243Z-050112T2330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
443 PM CST WED JAN 12 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 530 PM CST

* AT 438 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL AND WINDS
  TO 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF BOSWELL...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...SOPER...
  GOODLAND...HUGO AND KENT.

STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3389 9586 3395 9594 3412 9594 3416 9599
      3416 9549 3390 9552 3389 9554 3389 9554
      3389 9553 3390 9552 3390 9554 3394 9556
      3395 9560 3392 9562 3390 9569 3390 9575
      3388 9577

$$

3 follow-up statements

000 
WUUS54 KTSA 210716
SVRTSA
OKC001-210815-
/O.NEW.KTSA.SV.W.0002.050221T0716Z-050221T0815Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
116 AM CST MON FEB 21 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ADAIR COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 215 AM CST

* AT 113 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL
  AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS TO 80 MPH. SIREN ACTIVATION IS SUGGESTED. 
  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES WEST
  OF PROCTOR TO 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF BUNCH TO 12 MILES WEST OF
  BUNCH...MOVING EAST AT 65 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...PROCTOR...
  BUNCH...MARIETTA...STILWELL...CHRISTIE...BARON AND WESTVILLE.

THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS. IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE TAKE COVER ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3565 9447 3565 9480 3602 9479 3603 9454

$$

000 
WWUS54 KTSA 210734
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
133 AM CST MON FEB 21 2005

OKC001-210815-
/O.CON.KTSA.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-050221T0815Z/
ADAIR OK-
133 AM CST MON FEB 21 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 215 AM CST FOR ADAIR
COUNTY...

AT 132 AM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL
AND DAMAGING WINDS TO 70 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 3 MILES WEST OF WESTVILLE TO 5 MILES EAST OF STILWELL
TO 7 MILES EAST OF BUNCH...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...PROCTOR...
BUNCH...MARIETTA...STILWELL...CHRISTIE...BARON AND WESTVILLE.

THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS. IF NO 
UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE TAKE COVER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN 
AN INTERIOR ROOM AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3565 9447 3565 9480 3602 9479 3603 9454

$$

000 
WWUS54 KTSA 210755
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
155 AM CST MON FEB 21 2005

OKC001-210805-
/O.CAN.KTSA.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-050221T0815Z/
ADAIR OK-
155 AM CST MON FEB 21 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR ADAIR COUNTY HAS BEEN
CANCELLED...

THE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...THEREFORE THE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 3565 9447 3565 9480 3602 9479 3603 9454

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 12, 3:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee	39 days
Jan 12, 4:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Muskogee	35 days
Jan 12, 4:25 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Okfuskee, Sequoyah	68 days
Jan 12, 4:40 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	2 hr
Jan 12, 4:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	68 days
Jan 12, 5:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	39 days
Jan 12, 5:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	39 days

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.