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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Apr 6, 2006, 5:21 PM CDT for Osage County, Washington County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 24 min. 5 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
- Apr 6, 2006, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2006, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 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), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 5:23 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | Bartlesville, OK | |
| Apr 6, 5:23 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Bartlesville, OK | |
| Apr 6, 5:25 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | Bartlesville, OK | |
| Apr 6, 5:25 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 2 W Bartlesville, OK | |
| Apr 6, 5:29 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | Bartlesville, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 1:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 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.
- 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 062223 TORTSA OKC113-147-062245- /O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0035.060406T2221Z-060406T2245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 521 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 545 PM CDT * AT 518 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A POTENTIALLY TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG LOW LEVEL ROTATION 4 MILES WEST 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...DEWEY AND COPAN. A SECOND STORM ALSO CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS 2 MILES EAST OF OKESA....MOVING NORTH AT 50 MPH. IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...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 3697 9621 3663 9618 3666 9581 3700 9579 $$
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, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 35 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.