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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 27, 2008McIntosh County, Muskogee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 2008, 7:07 PM CDT for McIntosh County, Muskogee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 53 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: Mar 27, 2008, 7:07 PM CDT (00:07 UTC)
Expired: Mar 27, 2008, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 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
Mar 27, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 201 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: 1283 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1560 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 204 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 5.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KTSA 280008
TORTSA
OKC091-101-280100-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0028.080328T0007Z-080328T0100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
707 PM CDT THU MAR 27 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN MUSKOGEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
  NORTHEASTERN MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 705 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
  A POTENTIALLY TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG LOW LEVEL ROTATION
  NEAR RENTIESVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM HAS
  A HISTORY OF PRODUCING A TORNADO...TAKE COVER NOW A FUNNEL CLOUD 
WAS REPORTED WEST OF RENTIESVILLE JUST AFTER 7 PM. 

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...KEEFETON...
  WARNER...PORUM...WEBBERS FALLS AND BRIARTOWN.

GOLFBALL HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. 

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 3560 9513 3557 9512 3552 9512 3546 9507
      3545 9509 3543 9509 3527 9522 3547 9561
      3561 9553
TIME...MOT...LOC 0007Z 291DEG 16KT 3552 9549

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KTSA 280054
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
752 PM CDT THU MAR 27 2008

OKC091-101-280102-
/O.EXP.KTSA.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-080328T0100Z/
MUSKOGEE OK-MCINTOSH OK-
752 PM CDT THU MAR 27 2008

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN MCINTOSH AND SOUTHEASTERN
MUSKOGEE COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 800 PM CDT...

THE THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...THEREFORE THE
TORNADO WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS 
STORM AS IT MOVES EAST INTO SEQUOYAH COUNTY. 

A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN MCINTOSH... 
NORTHERN PITTSBURG...AND HASKELL COUNTIES. 

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM. 

LAT...LON 3560 9513 3557 9512 3552 9512 3546 9507
      3545 9509 3543 9509 3527 9522 3547 9561
      3561 9553
TIME...MOT...LOC 0052Z 280DEG 24KT 3549 9516

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 27, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg	64 min
Mar 27, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	65 min
Mar 27, 7:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh, Pittsburg	33 min
Mar 27, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg	66 min
Mar 27, 8:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	24 min
Mar 27, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore	73 min
Mar 27, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah	46 min
Mar 27, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	46 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.