Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 30, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2005, 11:45 PM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 30 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
- Jun 3, 2005, 11:45 PM CDT (04:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2005, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Osage County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:48 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 nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 506 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1371 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 414 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KTSA 040445 TORTSA OKC113-040515- /O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0030.050604T0445Z-050604T0515Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1145 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 1215 AM CDT * AT 1144 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES WEST OF GRAINOLA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...GRAINOLA AND FORAKER. 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 3700 9675 3684 9675 3686 9609 3700 9609 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KTSA 040454 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1155 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2005 OKC113-040515- /O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0030.000000T0000Z-050604T0515Z/ OSAGE OK- 1155 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1215 AM CDT FOR OSAGE COUNTY... AT 1152 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GRAINOLA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...GRAINOLA AND FORAKER. IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS LAT...LON 3700 9675 3684 9675 3686 9609 3700 9609 $$
000 WWUS54 KTSA 040505 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1205 AM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 OKC113-040515- /O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0030.000000T0000Z-050604T0515Z/ OSAGE OK- 1205 AM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1215 AM CDT FOR OSAGE COUNTY... AT 1201 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORAKER...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHWEST OSAGE COUNTY. NIGHTTIME TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS - TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE LAT...LON 3700 9665 3685 9664 3688 9642 3700 9643 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 11:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 24 min |
| Jun 4, 12:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 74 min |
| Jun 4, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 71 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.