Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2007, 4:13 PM CDT for Rogers County, Tulsa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 47 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
- Apr 24, 2007, 4:13 PM CDT (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2007, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 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.
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 |
| Apr 24, 3:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 149 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 242113
TORTSA
OKC131-143-242200-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0008.070424T2113Z-070424T2200Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
413 PM CDT TUE APR 24 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN ROGERS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
NORTHEASTERN TULSA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 500 PM CDT
* AT 408 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF OWASSO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. STORM SPOTTERS
REPORTED STRONG ROTATION NEAR TULSA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AT 411 PM.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...OWASSO...
COLLINSVILLE...OOLOGAH AND TALALA.
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 3622 9600 3613 9585 3649 9551 3660 9569
3660 9581 3644 9582 3643 9600
$$2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS54 KTSA 242141
SVSTSA
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
440 PM CDT TUE APR 24 2007
OKC143-242150-
/O.CAN.KTSA.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-070424T2200Z/
TULSA OK-
440 PM CDT TUE APR 24 2007
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN TULSA COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED NORTHEAST AND OUT OF THE COUTNY.
LAT...LON 3623 9581 3631 9551 3660 9547 3660 9569
3660 9581 3644 9582 3643 9580
$$
OKC131-242200-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-070424T2200Z/
ROGERS OK-
440 PM CDT TUE APR 24 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN
ROGERS COUNTY...
AT 437 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF CLAREMORE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
45 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...TALALA...FOYIL
AND BUSHYHEAD.
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 3623 9581 3631 9551 3660 9547 3660 9569
3660 9581 3644 9582 3643 9580
$$000
WWUS54 KTSA 242200
SVSTSA
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
459 PM CDT TUE APR 24 2007
OKC131-242209-
/O.EXP.KTSA.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-070424T2200Z/
ROGERS OK-
459 PM CDT TUE APR 24 2007
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN ROGERS COUNTY EXPIRES AT 500 PM
CDT...
THE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA AND WEAKENED BELOW
SEVERE LIMITS...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO
EXPIRE.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM THIS EVENING.
LAT...LON 3623 9581 3631 9551 3660 9547 3660 9569
3660 9581 3644 9582 3643 9580
$$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, 2:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 51 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, 4:14 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 |
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.