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Tornado Warning 110, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Dec 27, 2008, 7:39 AM CST for Wagoner County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 18 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
- Dec 27, 2008, 7:39 AM CST (13:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 27, 2008, 7:57 AM CST
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 27, 2:02 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 627 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 555 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 428 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 370 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 7.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KTSA 271339
TORTSA
OKC145-271415-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0110.081227T1339Z-081227T1415Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
739 AM CST SAT DEC 27 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WAGONER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 815 AM CST
* AT 734 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES WEST
OF PORTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 70 MPH. THIS STORM WILL ALSO BE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED HAIL.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...OKAY AND
WAGONER.
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 3608 9526 3593 9530 3583 9527 3580 9547
3581 9550 3578 9559 3584 9566 3587 9565
3586 9569 3588 9571 3608 9554
TIME...MOT...LOC 1338Z 218DEG 59KT 3591 9555
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS54 KTSA 271357
SVSTSA
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
757 AM CST SAT DEC 27 2008
OKC145-271407-
/O.CAN.KTSA.TO.W.0110.000000T0000Z-081227T1415Z/
WAGONER OK-
757 AM CST SAT DEC 27 2008
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WAGONER COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...THEREFORE THE
TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM.
LAT...LON 3608 9526 3593 9530 3583 9527 3580 9547
3581 9550 3578 9559 3584 9566 3587 9565
3586 9569 3588 9571 3608 9554
TIME...MOT...LOC 1357Z 218DEG 59KT 3616 9531
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 27, 3:34 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pawnee | 56 min |
| Dec 27, 4:29 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 46 min |
| Dec 27, 5:04 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 41 min |
| Dec 27, 5:44 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Washington | 46 min |
| Dec 27, 6:21 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Craig, Creek, Nowata, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Rogers and 2 more | 54 min |
| Dec 27, 6:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 36 min |
| Dec 27, 6:58 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Creek, Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 2 hr |
| Dec 27, 7:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Mayes, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Rogers, Tulsa and 1 more | 40 min |
| Dec 27, 7:21 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 24 min |
| Dec 27, 7:23 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner | 37 min |
| Dec 27, 7:46 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa | 59 min |
| Dec 27, 7:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes, Wagoner | 38 min |
| Dec 27, 8:14 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Wagoner | 31 min |
| Dec 27, 8:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa | 41 min |
| Dec 27, 8:46 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Adair, Cherokee | 59 min |
| Dec 27, 8:50 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pittsburg | 25 min |
| Dec 27, 9:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg | 43 min |
| Dec 27, 9:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Muskogee, Pittsburg, Sequoyah | 50 min |
| Dec 27, 9:34 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Sequoyah | 41 min |
| Dec 27, 9:50 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer | 40 min |
| Dec 27, 10:02 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Choctaw, Pushmataha | 43 min |
| Dec 27, 10:16 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Adair, Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha and 1 more | 59 min |
| Dec 27, 10:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha | 56 min |
| Dec 27, 10:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 53 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.