Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 10, 2006, 11:00 PM CST for Latimer County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 45 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, 11:00 PM CST (05:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2006, 11:45 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Latimer County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KTSA 110500 TORTSA OKC077-110545- /O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0005.060311T0500Z-060311T0545Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1100 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LATIMER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 1145 PM CST * AT 1057 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DAMON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...DAMON... WILBURTON...BENGAL AND RED OAK. 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 3483 9552 3481 9507 3506 9492 3505 9532 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KTSA 110528 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1128 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2006 OKC077-110545- /O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-060311T0545Z/ LATIMER OK- 1128 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1145 PM CST FOR NORTHERN LATIMER COUNTY... AT 1126 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 2 MILES SOUTH OF RED OAK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. NIGHTTIME TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS - TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE LAT...LON 3488 9520 3481 9507 3506 9492 3505 9522 $$
000 WWUS54 KTSA 110545 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1144 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2006 OKC077-110554- /O.EXP.KTSA.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-060311T0545Z/ LATIMER OK- 1144 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN LATIMER COUNTY EXPIRES AT 1145 PM CST... THE STRONGEST PORTION OF THE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED 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 BACK EDGE OF THIS THUNDERSTORM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM. LAT...LON 3488 9520 3481 9507 3506 9492 3505 9522 $$
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, 10:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg | 55 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 |
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.