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Tornado Warning 48, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2006, 7:28 PM CDT for Tulsa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 34 min. 2 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 24, 2006, 7:28 PM CDT (00:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2006, 8:02 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Tulsa County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 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 24, 7:44 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Owasso, OK | |
| Apr 24, 7:47 PM CDT | HAIL 2 | Owasso, 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 24, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 2326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1122 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KTSA 250028 TORTSA OKC143-250115- /O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0048.060425T0028Z-060425T0115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 728 PM CDT MON APR 24 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN TULSA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 722 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OWASSO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...OWASSO. 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 3626 9601 3614 9600 3617 9582 3636 9582 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KTSA 250102 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 801 PM CDT MON APR 24 2006 OKC143-250111- /O.CAN.KTSA.TO.W.0048.000000T0000Z-060425T0115Z/ TULSA OK- 801 PM CDT MON APR 24 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN TULSA COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO THE WEST OF TULSA COUNTY...AND WILL LIKELY AFFECT PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY BEFORE 10 PM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT. LAT...LON 3626 9601 3614 9600 3617 9582 3636 9582 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 59 min |
| Apr 24, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 48 min |
| Apr 24, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 65 min |
| Apr 24, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee | 61 min |
| Apr 24, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 62 min |
| Apr 24, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner | 61 min |
| Apr 24, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 28 min |
| Apr 24, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 38 min |
| Apr 24, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 43 min |
| Apr 24, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware, Mayes | 59 min |
| Apr 24, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Sequoyah | 63 min |
| Apr 24, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 50 min |
| Apr 24, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 38 min |
| Apr 24, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 52 min |
| Apr 25, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 30 min |
| Apr 25, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 47 min |
| Apr 25, 1:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 57 min |
| Apr 25, 2:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 56 min |
| Apr 25, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 63 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.