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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Apr 5, 2005, 6:51 PM CDT for Latimer County, LeFlore County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 54 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, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2005, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -649 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 852 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 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 052351 TORTSA OKC077-079-060045- /O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0016.050405T2351Z-050406T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 651 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LE FLORE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA NORTHEAST LATIMER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 645 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF FANSHAWE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...FANSHAWE... WISTER...HOWE...PANAMA...POTEAU...CAMERON AND POCOLA. 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 3504 9512 3487 9506 3492 9445 3529 9444 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KTSA 060032 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 732 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2005 OKC077-079-060045- /O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-050406T0045Z/ LE FLORE OK-LATIMER OK- 732 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR NORTHEAST LATIMER AND LE FLORE COUNTIES... AT 729 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MILTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...HOWE... BOKOSHE...POTEAU...SHADY POINT...PANAMA...BRADEN...SCULLYVILLE... POCOLA...SPIRO...ROCK ISLAND AND CAMERON. IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS LAT...LON 3504 9512 3487 9506 3492 9445 3537 9449 $$
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, 6:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell | 50 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, 6:57 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.