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Tornado Warning 17, 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, 10:45 PM CST for Benton County, Arkansas; Adair County, Cherokee County, Delaware County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 60 min. 5 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, 10:45 PM CST (04:45 UTC)
Expired: Jan 7, 2008, 11:45 PM CST
In force: 60 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), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:45 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, 10:45 PM CST	HAIL 0.75	4 Se Peggs, OK
Jan 7, 10:58 PM CST	HAIL 1	Cherokee City, AR
Jan 7, 11:19 PM CST	TSTM WND DMG	Maysville, AR	SEVERAL LARGE TREES DOWN
Jan 7, 11:20 PM CST	TSTM WND DMG	1 E Maysville, AR	SEVERAL LARGE TREES DOWN...ROOF DAMAGE
Jan 7, 11:55 PM CST	HAIL 0.75	3 Sw Bella Vista, 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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 106 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KTSA 080445
TORTSA
ARC007-OKC001-021-041-080545-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0017.080108T0445Z-080108T0545Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1045 PM CST MON JAN 7 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1145 PM CST

* AT 1041 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR            
  INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADOES    
  FROM 3 MILES SOUTH OF PEGGS TO 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OAKS...        
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...LEACH...
  WATTS...WEST SILOAM SPRINGS...SILOAM SPRINGS...OAKS...TWIN OAKS...
  KANSAS...SPRINGTOWN...COLCORD...HIGHFILL...CAVE SPRINGS...
  MAYSVILLE...LOWELL...GENTRY...DECATUR...ROGERS...GRAVETTE...
  GARFIELD...BELLA VISTA...HIWASSE...WAR EAGLE...GATEWAY...PEA RIDGE
  AND BENTONVILLE.

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 3626 9387 3622 9433 3617 9433 3611 9441
      3610 9454 3606 9455 3584 9520 3607 9520
      3608 9512 3617 9511 3617 9500 3649 9461
      3651 9388
TIME...MOT...LOC 0445Z 246DEG 41KT 3606 9506 3616 9477

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KTSA 080515
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1115 PM CST MON JAN 7 2008

ARC007-OKC001-021-041-080545-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0017.000000T0000Z-080108T0545Z/
BENTON AR-DELAWARE OK-ADAIR OK-CHEROKEE OK-
1115 PM CST MON JAN 7 2008

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1145 PM CST FOR
NORTHEASTERN CHEROKEE...NORTHERN ADAIR...SOUTHEASTERN DELAWARE AND
BENTON COUNTIES...

AT 1112 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR DECATUR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...GRAVETTE...
HIGHFILL...SULPHUR SPRINGS...ROCKY COMFORT...HEALING SPRINGS...
VAUGHN...HIWASSE...CAVE SPRINGS...CENTERTON...MILLER...BENTONVILLE...
BELLA VISTA...LOWELL...ROGERS...MONTE NE...PEA RIDGE...AVOCA...BEAVER
LAKE...GARFIELD...LARUE...LOOKOUT...WAR EAGLE...GATEWAY...HILL TOP...
BLAND 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 3626 9387 3622 9433 3617 9433 3611 9441
      3610 9454 3600 9479 3602 9501 3649 9461
      3651 9388
TIME...MOT...LOC 0515Z 246DEG 41KT 3634 9444

$$

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, 9:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton	63 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.