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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 4, 2005Osage County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2005, 12:15 AM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 32 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 4, 2005, 12:15 AM CDT (05:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2005, 12:47 AM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Osage County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:18 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 nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KTSA 040516
TORTSA
OKC113-040545-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0031.050604T0516Z-050604T0545Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1215 AM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 1245 AM CDT

* AT 1214 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED
  OVER OSAGE COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 35 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 3699 9652 3691 9651 3692 9631 3700 9629

$$

3 follow-up statements

000 
WFUS54 KTSA 040521 CCA
TORTSA
OKC113-040545-
/O.COR.KTSA.TO.W.0031.050604T0516Z-050604T0545Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1215 AM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 1245 AM CDT

* AT 1214 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION.  THIS STORM WAS
  LOCATED 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORAKER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE ROTATING THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF 
  NORTHERN OSAGE 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 3699 9652 3691 9651 3692 9631 3700 9629

$$

000 
WWUS54 KTSA 040532
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1230 AM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

OKC113-040545-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0031.000000T0000Z-050604T0545Z/
OSAGE OK-
1230 AM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1245 AM CDT FOR NORTHERN OSAGE 
COUNTY...

AT 1227 AM CDT...THE ROTATING STORM HAD MOVED NORTHEAST OUT OF OSAGE 
COUNTY.  HOWEVER ANOTHER STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SHIDLER AND WE WILL 
MONITOR ITS TRENDS BEFORE MAKING ANOTHER WARNING DECISION.
THE STORMS IN AND NEAR NORTHERN OSAGE COUNTY WERE MOVING EAST AND 
NORTHEAT AROUND 30 MPH.

LAT...LON 3699 9651 3691 9651 3692 9631 3700 9629

$$

000 
WWUS54 KTSA 040547
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1246 AM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

OKC113-040556-
/O.EXP.KTSA.TO.W.0031.000000T0000Z-050604T0545Z/
OSAGE OK-
1246 AM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN OSAGE COUNTY EXPIRED AT 1245 AM CDT...

THE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA AND WEAKENED BELOW
SEVERE LIMITS...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO
EXPIRE.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM

LAT...LON 3699 9651 3691 9651 3692 9631 3700 9629

$$

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 3, 11:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage	30 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.