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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 9, 2006, 2:06 AM CST for LeFlore County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 32 min. 6 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
- Mar 9, 2006, 2:06 AM CST (08:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2006, 2:38 AM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County LeFlore County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:07 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 2:12 AM CST | TSTM WND DMG | Panama, OK | SIDING BLOWN OFF POST OFFICE |
| Mar 9, 2:18 AM CST | TSTM WND GST 60 | Panama, OK | |
| Mar 9, 2:18 AM CST | HAIL 0.88 | Panama, OK | |
| Mar 9, 2:25 AM CST | TSTM WND DMG | Cameron, OK | TREES AND TREE LIMBS DOWNED WINDS ESTIMATED AT 60 MPH. |
| Mar 9, 2:25 AM CST | HAIL 1 | Cameron, OK | 1 INCH HAIL REPORTED IN DOWN |
| Mar 9, 2:30 AM CST | HAIL 0.75 | Rock Island, OK | ALSO WINDS ESTIMATED AT 60 MPH. |
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 8, 11:42 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 712 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KTSA 090806 TORTSA OKC079-090845- /O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0002.060309T0806Z-060309T0845Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 206 AM CST THU MAR 9 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LE FLORE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 245 AM CST * AT 203 AM 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 14 MILES WEST OF POTEAU...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...POTEAU... PANAMA...CAMERON AND POCOLA. IN ADDITION TO A TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TENNIS BALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE TAKE COVER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3509 9499 3494 9488 3506 9446 3529 9447 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KTSA 090838 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 237 AM CST THU MAR 9 2006 OKC079-090847- /O.CAN.KTSA.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-060309T0845Z/ LE FLORE OK- 237 AM CST THU MAR 9 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR LE FLORE COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED EAST...OUT OF LE FLORE COUNTY... THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LAT...LON 3509 9499 3494 9488 3506 9446 3529 9447 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 8:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 51 min |
| Mar 8, 9:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 28 min |
| Mar 8, 10:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 60 min |
| Mar 8, 11:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 33 min |
| Mar 9, 12:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Pittsburg | 58 min |
| Mar 9, 1:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, Muskogee | 73 min |
| Mar 9, 1:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 61 min |
| Mar 9, 4:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 32 min |
| Mar 9, 4:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 35 min |
| Mar 9, 12:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg | 66 min |
| Mar 9, 12:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 53 min |
| Mar 9, 1:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee | 54 min |
| Mar 9, 1:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 14 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.