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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 12, 2006Nowata County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 12, 2006, 7:06 PM CST for Nowata County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 24 min. 1 report 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: Mar 12, 2006, 7:06 PM CST (01:06 UTC)
Expired: Mar 12, 2006, 7:30 PM CST
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Nowata County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:09 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
Mar 12, 7:11 PM CST	HAIL 0.88	Lenapah, OK

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
Mar 12, 12:46 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 1549 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1450 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 264 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 13.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KTSA 130106
TORTSA
OKC105-130130-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0010.060313T0106Z-060313T0130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
706 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NOWATA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 730 PM CST

* AT 704 PM CST...RADAR DETECTED A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY
  STRONG LOW LEVEL ROTATION...INDICATING A TORNADO IS OCCURRING OR
  COULD FORM AT ANY TIME.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES WEST OF
  DELAWARE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...DELAWARE AND
  LENAPAH.

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 3684 9581 3672 9580 3676 9543 3699 9541
      3702 9551

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 12, 6:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Washington	36 min
Mar 12, 6:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	51 min
Mar 12, 6:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	58 min
Mar 12, 6:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Washington	50 min
Mar 12, 6:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	49 min
Mar 12, 7:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers	60 min
Mar 12, 7:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	59 min
Mar 12, 7:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Nowata	36 min
Mar 12, 7:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Wagoner	70 min
Mar 12, 7:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	35 min
Mar 12, 7:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	12 min
Mar 12, 7:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig	59 min
Mar 12, 7:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	63 min
Mar 12, 8:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers	53 min
Mar 12, 8:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Wagoner	44 min
Mar 12, 8:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Craig, Mayes	24 min
Mar 12, 8:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Rogers	22 min
Mar 12, 8:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Ottawa	57 min
Mar 12, 8:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Delaware	50 min
Mar 12, 8:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Craig	14 min
Mar 12, 8:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Mayes	49 min
Mar 12, 8:46 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee	59 min
Mar 12, 8:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Ottawa	22 min
Mar 12, 9:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair	29 min
Mar 12, 9:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Delaware	33 min
Mar 12, 10:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Nowata	44 min
Mar 12, 10:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Ottawa	39 min
Mar 12, 11:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers	56 min
Mar 12, 11:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig	34 min
Mar 12, 11:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware, Ottawa	59 min
Mar 12, 11:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	63 min
Mar 13, 12:21 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell	54 min
Mar 13, 12:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	16 min
Mar 13, 12:34 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	71 min
Mar 13, 12:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	27 min
Mar 13, 12:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	81 min
Mar 13, 12:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	77 min
Mar 13, 2:13 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	31 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.