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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Tulsa, OK

January 7, 2008Benton County, Arkansas; Adair County, Cherokee County, Delaware County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jan 7, 2008, 9:57 PM CST for Benton County, Arkansas; Adair County, Cherokee County, Delaware County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 63 min. 3 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: Jan 7, 2008, 9:57 PM CST (03:57 UTC)
Expired: Jan 7, 2008, 11:00 PM CST
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Benton County, AR, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Delaware County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:58 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
Jan 7, 10:00 PM CST	TSTM WND DMG	3 S Jay, OK	TREE DOWNED AND POWER LINES DOWNED BY WIND
Jan 7, 10:19 PM CST	HAIL 0.75	7 W Sulphur Springs, AR
Jan 7, 10:58 PM CST	HAIL 1	Cherokee City, AR

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
Jan 7, 7:48 PM CST	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 83 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: 765 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 955 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 281 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 338 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.7
Supercell composite: 7.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KTSA 080357
TORTSA
ARC007-OKC001-021-041-080500-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0016.080108T0357Z-080108T0500Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
957 PM CST MON JAN 7 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
  NORTHERN ADAIR COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  SOUTHERN DELAWARE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  BENTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 1100 PM CST

* AT 954 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  POTENTIALLY TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG LOW LEVEL ROTATION
  NEAR KANSAS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS
  STORM...A TORNADO IS OCCURRING OR COULD FORM AT ANY TIME.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...WATTS...
  COLCORD...WEST SILOAM SPRINGS...SILOAM SPRINGS...GENTRY...
  MAYSVILLE...SPRINGTOWN...DECATUR...HIGHFILL...GRAVETTE...CAVE
  SPRINGS...HIWASSE...BENTONVILLE...BELLA VISTA...ROGERS...PEA
  RIDGE...GARFIELD AND GATEWAY.

NIGHTTIME TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS...TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU
WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A
SAFE PLACE

LAT...LON 3650 9387 3639 9387 3621 9429 3622 9433
      3618 9434 3588 9498 3633 9500 3649 9457
TIME...MOT...LOC 0357Z 229DEG 47KT 3624 9478

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS54 KTSA 080415
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1014 PM CST MON JAN 7 2008

ARC007-OKC001-021-041-080500-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-080108T0500Z/
BENTON AR-DELAWARE OK-ADAIR OK-CHEROKEE OK-
1014 PM CST MON JAN 7 2008

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CST FOR
NORTHEASTERN CHEROKEE...NORTHERN ADAIR...SOUTHERN DELAWARE AND BENTON
COUNTIES...

AT 1011 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. ONE OF THESE 
STORMS WAS LOCATED NEAR CHEROKEE CITY AND THE OTHER WAS NEAR BELLA 
VISTA. BOTH SEVERE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. 

SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...MAYSVILLE...
GRAVETTE...AVOCA...PEA RIDGE...HILL TOP...WALNUT HILL...GARFIELD...
SULPHUR SPRINGS AND GATEWAY.

NIGHTTIME TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS - TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU
WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A
SAFE PLACE

LAT...LON 3650 9387 3639 9387 3621 9429 3622 9433
      3618 9434 3588 9498 3633 9500 3649 9457
TIME...MOT...LOC 0414Z 234DEG 43KT 3636 9459 3647 9421

$$

000 
WWUS54 KTSA 080432
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1032 PM CST MON JAN 7 2008

ARC007-OKC001-021-041-080500-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-080108T0500Z/
BENTON AR-DELAWARE OK-ADAIR OK-CHEROKEE OK-
1032 PM CST MON JAN 7 2008

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CST FOR
NORTHEASTERN CHEROKEE...NORTHERN ADAIR...SOUTHERN DELAWARE AND BENTON
COUNTIES...

AT 1028 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS 
LOCATED 6 MILES WEST OF SCRAPER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. 
ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS 
LOCATED NEAR GRAVETTE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...SCRAPER...
LEACH...OAKS...TWIN OAKS...KANSAS...BALLARD...WATTS...COLCORD...LAKE
FRANCIS...WEST SILOAM SPRINGS...SILOAM SPRINGS...GARFIELD...BELLA
VISTA...HIWASSE...AVOCA...CENTERTON...DECATUR...VAUGHN...CHEROKEE
CITY...CAVE SPRINGS...HIGHFILL...SPRINGTOWN...HEALING SPRINGS...
GALLITIN...GATEWAY...PEA RIDGE...GRAVETTE...MAYSVILLE...GENTRY...
SULPHUR SPRINGS...ROGERS...BENTONVILLE...HILL TOP...MILLER...
FAIRMOUNT...ROCKY COMFORT AND WALNUT HILL.

NIGHTTIME TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS - TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU
WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A
SAFE PLACE

LAT...LON 3650 9387 3639 9387 3621 9429 3622 9433
      3618 9434 3588 9498 3633 9500 3649 9457
TIME...MOT...LOC 0432Z 230DEG 41KT 3609 9492

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 7, 7:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton	31 min
Jan 7, 7:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton	48 min
Jan 7, 8:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	66 min
Jan 7, 8:24 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	4 hr
Jan 7, 8:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton	66 min
Jan 7, 10:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton	60 min
Jan 7, 11:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	35 min
Jan 8, 12:38 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton	19 min
Jan 8, 1:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	60 min
Jan 8, 2:11 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Benton	3 hr
Jan 8, 2:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll	58 min
Jan 8, 2:58 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	32 min
Jan 7, 6:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	59 min
Jan 7, 6:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	67 min
Jan 7, 6:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee	33 min
Jan 7, 7:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee	42 min
Jan 7, 7:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Delaware	24 min
Jan 7, 7:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	34 min
Jan 7, 7:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	41 min
Jan 7, 7:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Delaware	32 min
Jan 7, 7:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	55 min
Jan 7, 7:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee	50 min
Jan 7, 7:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee	31 min
Jan 7, 7:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Wagoner	61 min
Jan 7, 8:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Rogers, Tulsa and 1 more	67 min
Jan 7, 8:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee, Wagoner	43 min
Jan 7, 9:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, McIntosh, Mayes, Muskogee and 5 more	60 min
Jan 7, 9:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner	65 min
Jan 7, 9:54 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Okfuskee, Okmulgee	3 hr
Jan 7, 9:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	62 min
Jan 7, 10:07 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	53 min
Jan 7, 10:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Okmulgee	38 min
Jan 7, 11:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Okmulgee	34 min
Jan 7, 11:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner	55 min
Jan 7, 11:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Wagoner	61 min
Jan 8, 12:15 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig, Creek, Mayes, Nowata, Okmulgee, Rogers and 3 more	30 min
Jan 8, 12:59 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Ottawa, Rogers and 2 more	61 min
Jan 8, 1:40 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Wagoner	50 min
Jan 8, 2:31 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Muskogee	29 min

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.