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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 21, 2005Pittsburg County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 21, 2005, 6:26 PM CST for Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 49 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: Mar 21, 2005, 6:26 PM CST (00:26 UTC)
Expired: Mar 21, 2005, 7:15 PM CST
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pittsburg County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 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
Mar 21, 12:15 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 142 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2171 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000
WFUS54 KTSA 220027
TORTSA
OKC121-220115-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0009.050322T0026Z-050322T0115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
626 PM CST MON MAR 21 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEAST PITTSBURG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 715 PM CST

* AT 622 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED  
  OVER NORTHEAST PITTSBURG COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 25 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

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CST MONDAY EVENING FOR
EASTERN OKLAHOMA. 

LAT...LON 3526 9554 3530 9550 3531 9546 3518 9545
      3517 9546 3517 9545 3517 9543 3513 9557
      3523 9560

$$

2 follow-up statements

000
WWUS54 KTSA 220040
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
639 PM CST MON MAR 21 2005

OKC121-220115-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-050322T0115Z/
PITTSBURG OK-
639 PM CST MON MAR 21 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 715 PM CST FOR NORTHEAST 
PITTSBURG COUNTY...

AT 635 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 
OVER PITTSBURG COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

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

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CST MONDAY EVENING FOR
EASTERN OKLAHOMA.

LAT...LON 3526 9554 3530 9550 3531 9546 3518 9545
      3517 9546 3517 9545 3517 9543 3513 9557
      3523 9560

$$

000
WWUS54 KTSA 220049
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
649 PM CST MON MAR 21 2005

OKC121-220059-
/O.CAN.KTSA.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-050322T0115Z/
PITTSBURG OK-
649 PM CST MON MAR 21 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEAST PITTSBURG COUNTY HAS BEEN 
CANCELLED...

THE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...THEREFORE THE
TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CST MONDAY EVENING FOR
EASTERN OKLAHOMA. 

LAT...LON 3526 9554 3530 9550 3531 9546 3518 9545
      3517 9546 3517 9545 3517 9543 3513 9557
      3523 9560

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 21, 6:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	63 min
Mar 21, 6:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	58 min
Mar 21, 6:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Haskell	59 min
Mar 21, 6:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh	41 min
Mar 21, 6:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	54 min
Mar 21, 8:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	55 min
Mar 21, 8:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	61 min
Mar 21, 9:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw	67 min
Mar 21, 9:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	57 min
Mar 21, 9:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	65 min
Mar 21, 9:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	53 min
Mar 21, 9:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Pushmataha	92 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.