Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Sep 21, 2006, 9:02 PM CDT for McCurtain County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 58 min. 5 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 21, 2006, 9:02 PM CDT (02:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 2006, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County McCurtain County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 9:23 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 S Pickens, OK | A FEW TREES DOWN. |
| Sep 21, 9:23 PM CDT | TORNADO | Pickens, OK | TORNADO ON GROUND. |
| Sep 21, 9:50 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Battiest, OK | |
| Sep 21, 10:02 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 15 N Broken Bow, OK | TWO DOZEN TREES DOWNED NEAR AND JUST EAST OF THE COMMUNITY OF MT HERMAN. TWO STRUCTURES ALSO SUFFERED DAMAGE. |
| Sep 21, 10:02 PM CDT | TORNADO | 10 N Broken Bow, OK | TREES DOWN. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 1270 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1512 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 6.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KSHV 220205
TORSHV
OKC089-220300-
/O.NEW.KSHV.TO.W.0009.060922T0202Z-060922T0300Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
902 PM CDT THU SEP 21 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
MCCURTAIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
* AT 902 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES
NORTHWEST OF RINGOLD...OR 10 MILES WEST OF PICKENS...MOVING
EAST AT 40 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
PICKENS BY 920 PM CDT
BATTIEST BY 925 PM CDT
BETHEL BY 930 PM CDT
SMITHVILLE BY 955 PM CDT
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.
IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST
DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
FOR...
MCCURTAIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
UNTIL 1000 PM CDT.
LAT...LON 3435 9580 3417 9578 3412 9511 3412 9450
3450 9448 3449 9500
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS54 KSHV 220253
SVSSHV
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
948 PM CDT THU SEP 21 2006
OKC089-220300-
/O.CON.KSHV.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-060922T0300Z/
MCCURTAIN OK-
948 PM CDT THU SEP 21 2006
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR
MCCURTAIN COUNTY...
AT 948 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN SHREVEPORT
CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM NEAR BETHYL...MOVING
EAST AT 40 MPH. A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND EARLIER NEAR
PICKENS OKLAHOMA. THIS TORNADO WILL EFFECT THE TOWN OF BETHEL AND
MOVE NEAR SMITHVILLE AND WATSON OKLAHOMA. IF YOU LIVE IN NORTHERN
MCCURTAIN COUNTY...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS
THUNDERSTORM.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FRIDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA.
LAT...LON 3435 9580 3417 9578 3412 9511 3412 9450
3450 9448 3449 9500
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 9:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 35 min |
| Sep 22, 3:43 AM CDT | Lake Wind Advisory | SHV | McCurtain | 15 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.