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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Tulsa, OK

January 12, 20057 counties in Arkansas; Muskogee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jan 12, 2005, 4:14 PM CST for 7 counties in Arkansas; Muskogee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 35 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, 4:14 PM CST (22:14 UTC)
Expired: Feb 16, 2005, 9:30 AM CST
In force: 35 days
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Madison County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Washington County, AR, Muskogee County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 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, 3:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Jan 12, 3:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 252 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -408 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1114 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 515 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 489 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 
WFUS54 KTSA 122214
TORTSA
OKC101-122245-
/X.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0001.050112T2214Z-050112T2245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
414 PM CST WED JAN 12 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MUSKOGEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 445 PM CST

* AT 411 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED
  NEAR WARNER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...WEBBERS
  FALLS...BRAGGS AND PUMPKIN CENTER.

IF YOU ARE 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

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR
NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS AND NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA.

LAT...LON 3548 9542 3538 9525 3548 9509 3582 9515

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WFUS54 KTSA 161518
TORTSA
ARC007-015-033-047-087-131-143-161530-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0001.050216T1511Z-050216T1530Z/

TEST...TORNADO WARNING...TEST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
917 AM CST WED FEB 16 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO DRILL...THIS IS ONLY A DRILL...ONLY A DRILL FOR...
  CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
  BENTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
  MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
  FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS
  CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
  SEBASTIAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 930 AM CST

* THIS IS THE ANNUAL TORNADO DRILL.  NO SEVERE WEATHER IS OCCURRING.
  IF THIS WERE A REAL TORNADO WARNING...WOULD YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO?
  THAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THIS DRILL. 

* THIS DRILL INCLUDES CARROLL  BENTON  MADISON  WASHINGTON 
  FRANKLIN  CRAWFORD AND SEBASTIAN COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST AND
  WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS.
  

LAT...LON 3649 9459 3592 9451 3499 9434 3584 9359
      3647 9331

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 12, 5:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	39 days
Jan 12, 5:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford	39 days
Jan 12, 5:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin, Madison	39 days
Jan 12, 3:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee	39 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, 4:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Choctaw	39 days
Jan 12, 4:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	68 days

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.