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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 10, 2006Latimer County, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 10, 2006, 10:35 PM CST for Latimer County, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 55 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: Mar 10, 2006, 10:35 PM CST (04:35 UTC)
Expired: Mar 10, 2006, 11:30 PM CST
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Latimer County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:36 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.

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, 4.6 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 110435
TORTSA
OKC077-121-110530-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0004.060311T0435Z-060311T0530Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1035 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN PITTSBURG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  SOUTHERN LATIMER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 1130 PM CST

* AT 1031 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED
  18 MILES SOUTH OF HARTSHORNE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...HARTSHORNE...
  HIGGINS...YANUSH AND DAMON.

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 3463 9575 3493 9547 3487 9503 3487 9505
      3485 9506 3469 9532 3469 9551 3460 9552
      3459 9572

$$

3 follow-up statements

000
WWUS54 KTSA 110449
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1049 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2006

OKC077-121-110530-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-060311T0530Z/
PITTSBURG OK-LATIMER OK-
1049 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1130 PM CST FOR SOUTHERN 
LATIMER AND SOUTHEASTERN PITTSBURG COUNTIES...

AT 1048 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7
MILES SOUTH OF HIGGINS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...HIGGINS...
GOWEN...YANUSH AND DAMON.

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 3463 9575 3493 9547 3487 9503 3487 9505
      3485 9506 3469 9532 3469 9551 3460 9552
      3459 9572

$$

000
WWUS54 KTSA 110512
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1111 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2006

OKC121-110521-
/O.CAN.KTSA.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-060311T0530Z/
PITTSBURG OK-
1111 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN PITTSBURGH COUNTY HAS BEEN 
CANCELLED...

THE STORMS HAVE EAST OF PITTSBURGH COUNTY...THEREFORE THE WARNING 
HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 3469 9551 3503 9550 3503 9535 3506 9535
      3506 9493 3496 9493 3496 9499 3487 9500
      3486 9505 3469 9506

$$

OKC077-110530-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-060311T0530Z/
LATIMER OK-
1111 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1130 PM CST FOR SOUTHERN LATIMER
COUNTY...

AT 1109 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 2
MILES EAST OF DAMON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...PANOLA...BENGAL
AND RED OAK.

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 3469 9551 3503 9550 3503 9535 3506 9535
      3506 9493 3496 9493 3496 9499 3487 9500
      3486 9505 3469 9506

$$

000
WWUS54 KTSA 110529
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1129 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2006

OKC077-110539-
/O.EXP.KTSA.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-060311T0530Z/
LATIMER OK-
1129 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN LATIMER COUNTY EXPIRES AT 1130 
PM CST...

THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE MOVING 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 THE TRAILING PORTIONS OF THIS THUNDERSTORM.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM.

LAT...LON 3469 9551 3503 9550 3503 9535 3506 9535
      3506 9493 3496 9493 3496 9499 3487 9500
      3486 9505 3469 9506

$$

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, 10:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	53 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.