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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2007, 2:54 PM CDT for Osage County, Pawnee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 51 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, 2007, 2:54 PM CDT (19:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2007, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 2:54 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 N Skedee, OK | LOTS OF TREE DAMAGE 2 TO 4 MILES NORTH OF SKEDEE TOWARD ARKANSAS RIVER. POSSIBLE TORNADO. |
| Apr 24, 3:25 PM CDT | TORNADO | 5 Nw Pawhuska, OK | BROADCAST MEDIA STORM SPOTTER VIDEO OF TORNADO ON GROUND APPROXIMATELY 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF PAWHUSKA. |
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, 11:23 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 1389 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 486 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 300 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KTSA 241954 TORTSA OKC113-117-242045- /O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0007.070424T1954Z-070424T2045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 254 PM CDT TUE APR 24 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA CENTRAL PAWNEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 345 PM CDT * AT 250 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR SKEDEE... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BLACKBURN... RALSTON...FAIRFAX AND PAWHUSKA. 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 3639 9686 3628 9668 3667 9626 3681 9654 $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KTSA 242012 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 311 PM CDT TUE APR 24 2007 OKC117-242021- /O.CAN.KTSA.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-070424T2045Z/ PAWNEE OK- 311 PM CDT TUE APR 24 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL PAWNEE COUNTY IS CANCELLED... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PAWNEE COUNTY UNTIL 330 PM. LAT...LON 3657 9672 3640 9655 3667 9626 3681 9654 $$ OKC113-242045- /O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-070424T2045Z/ OSAGE OK- 311 PM CDT TUE APR 24 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL OSAGE COUNTY... AT 306 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FAIRFAX...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...PAWHUSKA. 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 3657 9672 3640 9655 3667 9626 3681 9654 $$
000
WWUS54 KTSA 242027
SVSTSA
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
327 PM CDT TUE APR 24 2007
OKC113-242045-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-070424T2045Z/
OSAGE OK-
327 PM CDT TUE APR 24 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL
OSAGE COUNTY...
AT 323 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED 10 MILES WEST OF PAWHUSKA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...PAWHUSKA.
IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW IF NO
UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS
LAT...LON 3673 9660 3659 9650 3654 9640 3667 9626
3681 9654
$$000
WWUS54 KTSA 242043
SVSTSA
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
342 PM CDT TUE APR 24 2007
OKC113-242052-
/O.EXP.KTSA.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-070424T2045Z/
OSAGE OK-
342 PM CDT TUE APR 24 2007
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL OSAGE COUNTY EXPIRES AT 345 PM
CDT...
THE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...THEREFORE THE
TORNADO WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN OSAGE
COUNTY UNTIL 430 PM.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM.
LAT...LON 3673 9660 3659 9650 3654 9640 3667 9626
3681 9654
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 2:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 66 min |
| Apr 24, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 59 min |
| Apr 24, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 54 min |
| Apr 24, 4:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa | 47 min |
| Apr 24, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Pittsburg | 61 min |
| Apr 24, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 39 min |
| Apr 24, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee | 42 min |
| Apr 24, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Pushmataha | 57 min |
| Apr 24, 6:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 3 hr |
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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.