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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 5, 2005Pushmataha County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Apr 5, 2005, 6:05 PM CDT for Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 55 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 5, 2005, 6:05 PM CDT (23:05 UTC)
Expired
Apr 5, 2005, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pushmataha County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:07 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
Apr 5, 2:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 200 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 2005-04-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 179 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2005-04-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 296 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
179 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-475 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
867 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
296 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
224 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KTSA 052305
TORTSA
OKC127-060000-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0012.050405T2305Z-050406T0000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
605 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PUSHMATAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 601 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF KELLOND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...MOYERS...
  KOSOMA...DUNBAR...SNOW...CLOUDY...STANLEY...CLAYTON...NASHOBA...
  TUSKAHOMA AND KIAMICHI.

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

LAT...LON 3422 9587 3412 9569 3436 9501 3464 9497
      3470 9538

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 5, 2:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek55 min
Apr 5, 2:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkfuskee54 min
Apr 5, 2:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage62 min
Apr 5, 3:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSATulsa56 min
Apr 5, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkmulgee59 min
Apr 5, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek47 min
Apr 5, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkfuskee47 min
Apr 5, 3:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh70 min
Apr 5, 3:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage67 min
Apr 5, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSATulsa64 min
Apr 5, 4:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWashington54 min
Apr 5, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkmulgee64 min
Apr 5, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg91 min
Apr 5, 4:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee69 min
Apr 5, 4:22 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAWashington38 min
Apr 5, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSANowata90 min
Apr 5, 4:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSARogers89 min
Apr 5, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWagoner91 min
Apr 5, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSATulsa, Washington64 min
Apr 5, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh47 min
Apr 5, 5:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALatimer84 min
Apr 5, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee48 min
Apr 5, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMayes92 min
Apr 5, 5:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAChoctaw, Pushmataha117 min
Apr 5, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell65 min
Apr 5, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg61 min
Apr 5, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee88 min
Apr 5, 5:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig, Nowata83 min
Apr 5, 6:10 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAHaskell50 min
Apr 5, 6:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSADelaware83 min
Apr 5, 6:27 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAChoctaw66 min
Apr 5, 6:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALatimer47 min
Apr 5, 6:48 PM CDTTornado WarningTSASequoyah57 min
Apr 5, 6:51 PM CDTTornado WarningTSALatimer, LeFlore54 min
Apr 5, 6:57 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAPushmataha48 min
Apr 5, 6:57 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAHaskell48 min

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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.