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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 6, 2006Osage County, Washington County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Apr 6, 2006, 4:55 PM CDT for Osage County, Washington County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 6, 2006, 4:55 PM CDT (21:55 UTC)
Expired: Apr 6, 2006, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Osage County, OK, Washington County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 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.

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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 131 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KTSA 062155
TORTSA
OKC113-147-062230-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0034.060406T2155Z-060406T2230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
455 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 452 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  POTENTIALLY TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG LOW LEVEL ROTATION 3
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF HULAH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 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...HULAH AND
  COPAN.

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 3690 9623 3679 9605 3694 9580 3700 9598

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KTSA 062216
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
516 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006

OKC113-147-062230-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0034.000000T0000Z-060406T2230Z/
OSAGE OK-WASHINGTON OK-
516 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR
WASHINGTON AND OSAGE COUNTIES...

AT 516 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A
POTENTIALLY TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG LOW LEVEL ROTATION.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HULAH...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 40 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...HULAH AND COPAN.

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 3690 9623 3679 9605 3694 9580 3700 9598

$$

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, 3:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage	46 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, 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

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.