Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Oct 17, 2007, 5:00 PM CDT for Choctaw County, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 45 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
- Oct 17, 2007, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 17, 2007, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Choctaw County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 5:15 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 3 Ssw Rufe, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 2:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 865 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 477 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KTSA 172200
TORTSA
OKC023-127-172245-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0016.071017T2200Z-071017T2245Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
500 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EASTERN CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
CENTRAL PUSHMATAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 545 PM CDT
* AT 458 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF
FORT TOWSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...FORT TOWSON.
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 3396 9540 3443 9513 3439 9503 3425 9503
3422 9512 3398 9514 3393 9518 3395 9523
3390 9523 3389 9526
TIME...MOT...LOC 2200Z 225DEG 33KT 3396 9526
$$3 follow-up statements
000
WWUS54 KTSA 172216 RRA
SVSTSA
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
517 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2007
OKC023-127-172245-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-071017T2245Z/
CHOCTAW OK-PUSHMATAHA OK-
517 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL
PUSHMATAHA AND NORTHEASTERN CHOCTAW COUNTIES...
AT 515 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR SWINK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
THE WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED
COUNTIES.
IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW IF NO
UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS
LAT...LON 3403 9528 3443 9513 3439 9503 3425 9503
3422 9512 3415 9513 3415 9514 3402 9514
3400 9523
TIME...MOT...LOC 2217Z 221DEG 29KT 3406 9517
$$000
WWUS54 KTSA 172232
SVSTSA
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
532 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2007
OKC023-172242-
/O.CAN.KTSA.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-071017T2245Z/
CHOCTAW OK-
532 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2007
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN CHOCTAW COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
LAT...LON 3416 9519 3430 9514 3438 9504 3437 9503
3425 9503 3422 9512 3416 9515
TIME...MOT...LOC 2232Z 221DEG 29KT 3415 9507
$$
OKC127-172245-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-071017T2245Z/
PUSHMATAHA OK-
532 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN PUSHMATAHA COUNTY...
AT 528 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED OVER WESTERN MCCURTAIN COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
THE WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED
COUNTY.
IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW IF NO
UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS
LAT...LON 3416 9519 3430 9514 3438 9504 3437 9503
3425 9503 3422 9512 3416 9515
TIME...MOT...LOC 2232Z 221DEG 29KT 3415 9507
$$000
WWUS54 KTSA 172243
SVSTSA
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
543 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2007
OKC127-172253-
/O.EXP.KTSA.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-071017T2245Z/
PUSHMATAHA OK-
543 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2007
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN PUSHMATAHA COUNTY EXPIRES AT
545 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 10 PM.
LAT...LON 3416 9519 3430 9514 3438 9504 3437 9503
3425 9503 3422 9512 3416 9515
TIME...MOT...LOC 2243Z 221DEG 29KT 3422 9500
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 7:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 57 min |
| Oct 17, 7:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 65 min |
| Oct 17, 10:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 75 min |
| Oct 17, 11:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 71 min |
| Oct 17, 1:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee, Osage, Pawnee | 46 min |
| Oct 17, 2:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee | 38 min |
| Oct 17, 2:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Nowata, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Washington | 45 min |
| Oct 17, 3:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Creek | 34 min |
| Oct 17, 3:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okfuskee | 23 min |
| Oct 17, 3:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Tulsa | 44 min |
| Oct 17, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 27 min |
| Oct 17, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 14 min |
| Oct 17, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Wagoner | 54 min |
| Oct 17, 3:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Ottawa | 36 min |
| Oct 17, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Delaware | 42 min |
| Oct 17, 4:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Delaware | 40 min |
| Oct 17, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Mayes, Nowata, Rogers | 44 min |
| Oct 17, 4:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Choctaw | 49 min |
| Oct 17, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 44 min |
| Oct 17, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 56 min |
| Oct 17, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 91 min |
| Oct 17, 6:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 38 min |
| Oct 17, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee, Washington | 74 min |
| Oct 17, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 57 min |
| Oct 17, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 70 min |
| Oct 17, 6:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 50 min |
| Oct 17, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 78 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.