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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2005, 4:13 PM CDT for McIntosh County, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 41 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, 4:13 PM CDT (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2005, 4:54 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties McIntosh County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -301 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1355 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -66 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 242113 TORTSA OKC091-111-242215- /O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0026.050524T2113Z-050524T2215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 413 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... OKMULGEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 515 PM CDT * AT 412 PM CDT...RADAR DETECTED A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY STRONG LOW LEVEL ROTATION...INDICATING A TORNADO IS OCCURRING OR COULD FORM AT ANY TIME. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF SCHULTER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...HENRYETTA... DEWAR...GRAYSON...HOFFMAN...STIDHAM...RAIFORD...VIVIAN AND EUFAULA. 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 3565 9578 3552 9606 3512 9573 3530 9547 $$
2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS54 KTSA 242128
SVSTSA
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
426 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2005
OKC091-111-242215-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0026.000000T0000Z-050524T2215Z/
OKMULGEE OK-MCINTOSH OK-
426 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2005
...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR MCINTOSH AND
OKMULGEE COUNTIES...
AT 421 PM CDT...RADAR CONTINUED TO DETECT A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM
WITH VERY STRONG LOW LEVEL ROTATION...INDICATING A TORNADO IS
OCCURRING OR COULD FORM AT ANY TIME. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES
WEST OF GRAYSON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
IN ADDITION TO A TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLFBALL
SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. IF NO UNDERGROUND
SHELTER IS AVAILABLE TAKE COVER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN
INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER NORTHEAST MCINTOSH COUNTY
...MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...HOFFMAN...
HITCHITA...COUNCIL HILL...PIERCE...RENTIESVILLE...STIDHAM...
CHECOTAH...RAIFORD...ONAPA...VIVIAN AND EUFAULA.
LAT...LON 3559 9586 3548 9598 3520 9581 3533 9536
3556 9534
$$000 WWUS54 KTSA 242154 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 453 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2005 OKC091-111-242201- /O.CAN.KTSA.TO.W.0026.000000T0000Z-050524T2215Z/ OKMULGEE OK-MCINTOSH OK- 453 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR MCINTOSH AND OKMULGEE COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A STORM CHASER REPORTED TENNIS BALL SIZE HAIL EAST OF SCHULTER EARLIER WITH THIS STORM. GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM AS IT CONTINUES TO MOVE THROUGH MCINTOSH COUNTY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT. LAT...LON 3565 9578 3552 9606 3512 9573 3530 9547 $$
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, 4:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 51 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 |
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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.