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Tornado Warning 50, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 9, 2006, 5:26 AM CDT for Ottawa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 22 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
- May 9, 2006, 5:26 AM CDT (10:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2006, 5:48 AM CDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ottawa County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 4:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 424 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 852 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KTSA 091026 TORTSA OKC115-091100- /O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0050.060509T1026Z-060509T1100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 526 AM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... OTTAWA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 600 AM CDT * AT 521 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF QUAPAW...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...PEORIA... 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 3698 9489 3680 9487 3678 9462 3698 9463 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KTSA 091048 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 548 AM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006 OKC115-091058- /O.CAN.KTSA.TO.W.0050.000000T0000Z-060509T1100Z/ OTTAWA OK- 548 AM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR OTTAWA COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8AM. LAT...LON 3698 9489 3680 9487 3678 9462 3698 9463 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 2:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 44 min |
| May 9, 3:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 64 min |
| May 9, 3:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Ottawa, Rogers and 1 more | 4 hr |
| May 9, 3:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 60 min |
| May 9, 4:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 67 min |
| May 9, 4:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Craig, Ottawa | 61 min |
| May 9, 4:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 52 min |
| May 9, 5:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 58 min |
| May 9, 5:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers | 51 min |
| May 9, 5:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 64 min |
| May 9, 6:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware, Ottawa | 56 min |
| May 9, 6:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 53 min |
| May 9, 11:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 16 more | 23 hr |
| May 9, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee | 58 min |
| May 9, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 77 min |
| May 9, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 59 min |
| May 9, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 54 min |
| May 9, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 53 min |
| May 9, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 42 min |
| May 9, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 59 min |
| May 9, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 57 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.