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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2005, 5:45 PM CDT for LeFlore County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 60 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, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2005, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County LeFlore County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
| May 24, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KTSA 242245 TORTSA OKC079-242345- /O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0028.050524T2245Z-050524T2345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 545 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LE FLORE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 539 PM CDT...RADAR DETECTED A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY STRONG LOW LEVEL ROTATION...INDICATING A TORNADO IS OCCURRING OR COULD FORM AT ANY TIME. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTH OF SPIRO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...CAMERON. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. LAT...LON 3530 9464 3515 9472 3502 9445 3519 9443 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KTSA 242254 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 552 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2005 OKC079-242345- /O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-050524T2345Z/ LE FLORE OK- 552 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR LE FLORE COUNTY... AT 544 PM CDT...RADAR CONTINUED TO DETECT A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY STRONG LOW LEVEL ROTATION...INDICATING A TORNADO IS OCCURRING OR COULD FORM AT ANY TIME. STRONG LOW LEVEL ROTATION WAS ALSO INDICATED BY RADAR THREE MILES EAST OF WISTER. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF CAMERON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING STRONG...DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WIND. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...HOWE...HEAVENER AND HODGEN. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. LAT...LON 3530 9464 3488 9500 3480 9445 3519 9443 $$
000 WWUS54 KTSA 242309 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 608 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2005 OKC079-242345- /O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-050524T2345Z/ LE FLORE OK- 608 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN LE FLORE COUNTY... AT 605 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CAMERON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. A TORNADO COULD FORM AT ANY TIME. AT 604 PM...QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR HODGEN. AT 604 PM...70 MPH THUNDERSTORM WIND WAS REPORTED NEAR HEAVENER. SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...HEAVENER AND HODGEN. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THE TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. LAT...LON 3530 9464 3488 9500 3480 9445 3519 9443 $$
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, 4:13 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, 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.