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Tornado Warning 101, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 31, 2008Osage County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2008, 7:26 PM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 34 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 31, 2008, 7:26 PM CDT (00:26 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2008, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Osage County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 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 31, 6:22 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 92 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 4351 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 879 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 354 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 8.3
Supercell composite: 36.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KTSA 010026
TORTSA
OKC113-010100-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0101.080601T0026Z-080601T0100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
726 PM CDT SAT MAY 31 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 724 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 12 MILES WEST OF
  PAWHUSKA...MOVING EAST AT 8 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 3667 9633 3652 9644 3666 9658 3672 9655
TIME...MOT...LOC 0026Z 290DEG 7KT 3666 9655

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KTSA 010041
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
741 PM CDT SAT MAY 31 2008

OKC113-010100-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0101.000000T0000Z-080601T0100Z/
OSAGE OK-
741 PM CDT SAT MAY 31 2008

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL
OSAGE COUNTY...

AT 736 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 EAST AT 8 MPH.  THIS 
STORM HAS BEEN WEAKENING...HOWEVER CONTINUES A TORNADIC RISK.

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 3667 9633 3656 9642 3665 9655 3670 9650
TIME...MOT...LOC 0041Z 290DEG 7KT 3665 9650

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 7:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage	36 min
May 31, 7:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage	32 min
May 31, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	26 min
May 31, 8:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	57 min
May 31, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	38 min
Jun 1, 12:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Washington	37 min
Jun 1, 3:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig	49 min
Jun 1, 3:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig	34 min
Jun 1, 3:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Delaware	40 min
Jun 1, 4:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	48 min
Jun 1, 6:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	59 min
Jun 1, 7:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	53 min
Jun 1, 7:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	44 min
Jun 1, 7:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	66 min
Jun 1, 8:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Rogers, Washington	66 min
Jun 1, 8:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa	55 min
Jun 1, 9:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	45 min
Jun 1, 9:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee	60 min
Jun 1, 9:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers	32 min
Jun 1, 9:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner	51 min
Jun 1, 9:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okmulgee, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa	66 min
Jun 1, 9:56 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa, Washington	4 hr
Jun 1, 10:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington	67 min
Jun 1, 10:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Creek, McIntosh, Mayes, Muskogee, Okfuskee and 4 more	77 min
Jun 1, 10:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Muskogee	55 min
Jun 1, 10:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee and 4 more	3 hr
Jun 1, 11:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	39 min
Jun 1, 11:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh and 3 more	59 min
Jun 1, 11:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore, Sequoyah	62 min
Jun 1, 12:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	LeFlore	3 hr
Jun 1, 2:22 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Ottawa	48 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.