Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 55, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 9, 2006, 7:44 PM CDT for Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report 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
- May 9, 2006, 7:44 PM CDT (00:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2006, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pittsburg County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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 | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 7:50 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Hartshorne, OK | LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 3059 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 905 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 313 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.2
- Supercell composite
- 16.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KTSA 100044 TORTSA OKC121-100115- /O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0055.060510T0044Z-060510T0115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 744 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PITTSBURG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 740 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTH OF HARTSHORNE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. ADDITIONAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ARPELAR... BACHE...DOW...HAILEYVILLE AND PITTSBURG. 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 3496 9603 3469 9609 3463 9553 3502 9550 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KTSA 100115 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 815 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006 OKC121-100125- /O.EXP.KTSA.TO.W.0055.000000T0000Z-060510T0115Z/ PITTSBURG OK- 815 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR PITTSBURG COUNTY EXPIRES AT 815 PM CDT... THE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3496 9603 3469 9609 3463 9553 3502 9550 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer | 80 min |
| May 9, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 65 min |
| May 9, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 61 min |
| May 9, 7:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 117 min |
| May 9, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Latimer | 49 min |
| May 9, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 84 min |
| May 9, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 66 min |
| May 9, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 63 min |
| May 9, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 31 min |
| May 9, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 33 min |
| May 9, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 92 min |
| May 9, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer | 29 min |
| May 9, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 19 min |
| May 9, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Sequoyah | 62 min |
| May 9, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Pushmataha | 95 min |
| May 9, 9:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Choctaw, LeFlore, Pushmataha | 115 min |
| May 9, 9:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 67 min |
| May 9, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes, Wagoner | 76 min |
| May 9, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 88 min |
| May 9, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 54 min |
| May 10, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa, Wagoner | 60 min |
| May 10, 12:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 54 min |
| May 10, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 46 min |
| May 10, 1:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 64 min |
| May 10, 1:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 71 min |
| May 10, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 55 min |
| May 10, 2:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 56 min |
| May 10, 2:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 27 min |
| May 10, 2:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 34 min |
| May 10, 3:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 58 min |
| May 10, 3:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 48 min |
| May 10, 3:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 53 min |
| May 10, 4:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 32 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.