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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 6, 2006Mayes County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Apr 6, 2006, 6:49 PM CDT for Mayes County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 26 min. 4 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, 6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)
Expired: Apr 6, 2006, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Mayes County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 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
Apr 6, 6:52 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	5 Sw Pryor, OK
Apr 6, 6:52 PM CDT	HAIL 0.88	2 W Pryor, OK
Apr 6, 6:52 PM CDT	HAIL 0.88	Pryor, OK
Apr 6, 6:55 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	Pryor, 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 293 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -508 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1046 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 378 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 394 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KTSA 062349
TORTSA
OKC097-070015-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0039.060406T2349Z-060407T0015Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MAYES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 649 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST    
  OF  CHOUTEAU...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...CHOUTEAU...
  PRYOR...LOCUST GROVE...SALINA...ROSE...SPAVINAW AND LANGLEY.

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 3635 9546 3607 9547 3619 9502 3649 9500

$$

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, 5:21 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, 6:53 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.