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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 24, 2005Cherokee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2005, 4:09 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 51 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: May 24, 2005, 4:09 PM CDT (21:09 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2005, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cherokee County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 24, 10:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2363 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KTSA 242109
TORTSA
OKC021-242200-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0025.050524T2109Z-050524T2200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
409 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 408 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 2
  MILES NORTH OF COOKSON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL
  AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY.

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 3583 9504 3565 9503 3566 9480 3583 9481

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS54 KTSA 242126
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
424 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2005

OKC021-242200-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0025.000000T0000Z-050524T2200Z/
CHEROKEE OK-
424 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR CHEROKEE
COUNTY...

AT 418 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 4 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF COOKSON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

A SECOND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST WEST OF WOODALL...MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 20 MILES PER HOUR. 

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 3583 9504 3565 9503 3566 9480 3583 9481

$$

000 
WWUS54 KTSA 242158
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
458 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2005

OKC021-242208-
/O.EXP.KTSA.TO.W.0025.000000T0000Z-050524T2200Z/
CHEROKEE OK-
458 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CHEROKEE COUNTY EXPIRES AT 500 PM CDT...

THE THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...THEREFORE THE
TORNADO WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE
WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3583 9504 3565 9503 3566 9480 3583 9481

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	39 min
May 24, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	54 min
May 24, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh	84 min
May 24, 4:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Okmulgee	41 min
May 24, 4:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	61 min
May 24, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	57 min
May 24, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell	70 min
May 24, 4:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Cherokee	119 min
May 24, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	85 min
May 24, 5:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah	117 min
May 24, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	LeFlore	60 min
May 24, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Sequoyah	43 min
May 24, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	54 min

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.