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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Apr 5, 2005, 6:10 PM CDT for Haskell County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 50 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, 6:10 PM CDT (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2005, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Haskell County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 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 5, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 204 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KTSA 052310 TORTSA OKC061-060000- /O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0013.050405T2310Z-050406T0000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 610 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HASKELL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 607 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR KINTA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...LEQUIRE... STIGLER...KEOTA AND TAMAHA. 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 3512 9536 3499 9521 3525 9482 3542 9502 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KTSA 052319 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 619 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2005 OKC061-060000- /O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050406T0000Z/ HASKELL OK- 619 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR HASKELL COUNTY... AT 615 PM CDT...RADAR CONTINUED TO DETECT A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY STRONG LOW LEVEL ROTATION...INDICATING A TORNADO IS OCCURRING OR COULD FORM AT ANY TIME. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STIGLER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...STIGLER... KANIMA...KEOTA AND TAMAHA. IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS LAT...LON 3515 9528 3509 9516 3525 9482 3542 9502 $$
000 WWUS54 KTSA 052329 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 629 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2005 OKC061-060000- /O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050406T0000Z/ HASKELL OK- 629 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR HASKELL COUNTY... AT 625 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTH OF STIGLER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...KANIMA...KEOTA AND TAMAHA. 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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. LAT...LON 3515 9528 3509 9516 3525 9482 3542 9502 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 55 min |
| Apr 5, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 54 min |
| Apr 5, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 62 min |
| Apr 5, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 56 min |
| Apr 5, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 59 min |
| Apr 5, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 47 min |
| Apr 5, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 47 min |
| Apr 5, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 70 min |
| Apr 5, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 67 min |
| Apr 5, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 64 min |
| Apr 5, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 54 min |
| Apr 5, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 64 min |
| Apr 5, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 91 min |
| Apr 5, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 69 min |
| Apr 5, 4:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Washington | 38 min |
| Apr 5, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 90 min |
| Apr 5, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 89 min |
| Apr 5, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 91 min |
| Apr 5, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa, Washington | 64 min |
| Apr 5, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 47 min |
| Apr 5, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer | 84 min |
| Apr 5, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 48 min |
| Apr 5, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 92 min |
| Apr 5, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Pushmataha | 117 min |
| Apr 5, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 65 min |
| Apr 5, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 61 min |
| Apr 5, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 88 min |
| Apr 5, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata | 83 min |
| Apr 5, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 55 min |
| Apr 5, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 83 min |
| Apr 5, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 66 min |
| Apr 5, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer | 47 min |
| Apr 5, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 57 min |
| Apr 5, 6:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore | 54 min |
| Apr 5, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 48 min |
| Apr 5, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell | 48 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.