Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 32, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Apr 6, 2006, 3:44 PM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 46 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
- Apr 6, 2006, 3:44 PM CDT (20:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2006, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Osage County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 3:49 PM CDT | TORNADO | 12 Wnw Hominy, OK | LOCATION APPROXIMATE WITH A BRIEF TOUCHDOWN |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 1:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 693 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -332 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KTSA 062044 TORTSA OKC113-062130- /O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0032.060406T2044Z-060406T2130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 344 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 341 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 16 MILES WEST OF HOMINY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...HOMINY... WYNONA...PAWHUSKA...BARNSDALL...OKESA...BIGHEART AND HULAH. 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 3650 9675 3631 9666 3653 9600 3700 9603 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KTSA 062102 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 401 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006 OKC113-062130- /O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0032.000000T0000Z-060406T2130Z/ OSAGE OK- 401 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR OSAGE COUNTY... AT 358 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND STORM SPOTTERS CONTINUED TO TRACK A POTENTIALLY TORNADIC STORM LOCATED 9 MILES WEST OF WYNONA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. A TORNADO HAS BEEN REPORTED APPROXIMATELY 4 MILES EAST OF RALSTON...TAKE COVER NOW SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...WYNONA... PERSHING...PAWHUSKA...NELAGONEY...BARNSDALL...TALLANT...WOLCO... OKESA...BIGHEART AND HULAH. A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER NOW IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS LAT...LON 3650 9675 3631 9666 3653 9600 3700 9603 $$
000 WWUS54 KTSA 062113 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 414 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006 OKC113-062130- /O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0032.000000T0000Z-060406T2130Z/ OSAGE OK- 414 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR OSAGE COUNTY... AT 410 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A POTENTIALLY TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG LOW LEVEL ROTATION. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PAWHUSKA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...A TORNADO IS OCCURRING OR COULD FORM AT ANY TIME. SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...PAWHUSKA... BARNSDALL...NELAGONEY...TALLANT...WOLCO...OKESA...HULAH AND BIGHEART. 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 3650 9675 3631 9666 3653 9600 3700 9603 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 3:31 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 16 more | 18 hr |
| Apr 6, 3:31 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | TSA | Craig, Creek, Mayes, Nowata, Okfuskee, Okmulgee and 6 more | 18 hr |
| Apr 6, 10:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer | 52 min |
| Apr 6, 11:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 53 min |
| Apr 6, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 55 min |
| Apr 6, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 38 min |
| Apr 6, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 52 min |
| Apr 6, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 30 min |
| Apr 6, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 35 min |
| Apr 6, 5:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 24 min |
| Apr 6, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 29 min |
| Apr 6, 5:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers, Washington | 44 min |
| Apr 6, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okmulgee, Osage, Tulsa, Wagoner | 49 min |
| Apr 6, 6:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner | 42 min |
| Apr 6, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee | 65 min |
| Apr 6, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 56 min |
| Apr 6, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes, Rogers | 40 min |
| Apr 6, 6:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Mayes | 26 min |
| Apr 6, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 37 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.