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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 10, 2006Pushmataha County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 10, 2006, 10:22 PM CST for Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 53 min. 2 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 10, 2006, 10:22 PM CST (04:22 UTC)
Expired: Mar 10, 2006, 11:15 PM CST
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pushmataha County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:23 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 10, 10:36 PM CST	HAIL 1	8 W Eubanks, OK
Mar 10, 10:52 PM CST	HAIL 0.88	Moyers, 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 10, 8:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	18 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3654 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 182 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 110422
TORTSA
OKC127-110515-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0003.060311T0422Z-060311T0515Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1022 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN PUSHMATAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 1115 PM CST

* AT 1019 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED
  15 MILES WEST OF MOYERS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...KELLOND...
  MOYERS...KOSOMA...DUNBAR...SNOW AND STANLEY.

NIGHTTIME TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS - TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU
WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A
SAFE PLACE

LAT...LON 3443 9578 3420 9578 3439 9524 3462 9538

$$

2 follow-up statements

000
WWUS54 KTSA 110448
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1046 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2006

OKC127-110515-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-060311T0515Z/
PUSHMATAHA OK-
1046 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1115 PM CST FOR WESTERN 
PUSHMATAHA COUNTY...

AT 1044 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 3
MILES WEST OF EUBANKS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

AT 1044 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ALSO INDICIATED A 
POTENTIALLY TORNADIC STORM ACROSS FAR NORTHWESTERN PORTIONS OF
PUSHMATAHA COUNTY...AND AN ADDITIONAL POTENTIALLY TORNADIC STORM
ENTER FAR SOUTHWEST PUSHMATAHA COUNTY.  BOTH THESE STORMS WERE
MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...ALL LOCATIONS
ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL PUSHMATAHA COUNTY.

NIGHTTIME TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS - TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU
WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A
SAFE PLACE

LAT...LON 3416 9578 3451 9578 3451 9567 3459 9567
      3459 9552 3468 9551 3468 9494 3451 9494
      3451 9505 3425 9504 3425 9514 3416 9514

$$

000
WWUS54 KTSA 110520
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1119 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2006

OKC127-110529-
/O.EXP.KTSA.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-060311T0515Z/
PUSHMATAHA OK-
1119 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WESTERN PUSHMATAHA COUNTY EXPIRES AT 1115 
PM CST...

THE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...THEREFORE THE
TORNADO WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE 
WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WESTERN PUSHMATAHA.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM.

LAT...LON 3416 9578 3451 9578 3451 9567 3459 9567
      3459 9552 3468 9551 3468 9494 3451 9494
      3451 9505 3425 9504 3425 9514 3416 9514

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 10, 8:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	30 min
Mar 10, 8:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Wagoner	32 min
Mar 10, 9:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers	30 min
Mar 10, 9:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	66 min
Mar 10, 10:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg	55 min
Mar 10, 11:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Latimer	45 min
Mar 10, 11:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell	55 min
Mar 10, 11:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	46 min
Mar 10, 11:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	73 min
Mar 10, 11:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	58 min
Mar 10, 11:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	30 min
Mar 11, 12:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	46 min
Mar 11, 1:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	42 min
Mar 11, 12:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Okmulgee	51 min
Mar 11, 12:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	14 min
Mar 11, 1:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	58 min
Mar 11, 2:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee	44 min
Mar 11, 2:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	41 min
Mar 11, 4:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	30 min
Mar 11, 4:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	55 min
Mar 11, 4:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	45 min
Mar 11, 4:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	44 min
Mar 11, 5:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	39 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.