Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 12, 2006, 8:41 PM CST for Craig County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 14 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, 8:41 PM CST (02:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2006, 8:55 PM CST
- In force
- 14 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Craig County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:42 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, 8:42 PM CST | HAIL 1 | 5 Ne Vinita, 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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KTSA 130241 TORTSA OKC035-130315- /O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0016.060313T0241Z-060313T0315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 841 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CRAIG COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 915 PM CST * AT 838 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 4 MILES WEST OF KETCHUM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BLUEJACKET. 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 3675 9521 3652 9515 3652 9501 3683 9500 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KTSA 130255 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 855 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006 OKC035-130305- /O.CAN.KTSA.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-060313T0315Z/ CRAIG OK- 855 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CRAIG COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM. LAT...LON 3675 9521 3652 9515 3652 9501 3683 9500 $$
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, 7:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Nowata | 24 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 | 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.