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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jan 7, 2008, 7:11 PM CST for McIntosh County, Muskogee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report 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, 7:11 PM CST (01:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 7, 2008, 7:45 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:13 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, 7:30 PM CST | HAIL 0.75 | Keefeton, OK |
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, 4:02 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1742 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KTSA 080111
TORTSA
OKC091-101-080145-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0004.080108T0111Z-080108T0145Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
711 PM CST MON JAN 7 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL MUSKOGEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
NORTHEASTERN MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 745 PM CST
* AT 708 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF CHECOTAH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...WARNER AND
KEEFETON.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 40 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 265 AND 282.
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 3562 9513 3559 9511 3535 9541 3542 9559
3560 9543
TIME...MOT...LOC 0111Z 222DEG 31KT 3543 9543
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS54 KTSA 080124
SVSTSA
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
724 PM CST MON JAN 7 2008
OKC091-101-080145-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-080108T0145Z/
MUSKOGEE OK-MCINTOSH OK-
724 PM CST MON JAN 7 2008
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CST FOR
NORTHEASTERN MCINTOSH AND CENTRAL MUSKOGEE COUNTIES...
AT 721 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR WARNER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...WARNER AND
KEEFETON.
IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW IF NO
UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS
LAT...LON 3559 9511 3558 9513 3535 9541 3542 9559
3560 9543 3562 9513
TIME...MOT...LOC 0124Z 227DEG 31KT 3551 9535
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 7:22 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, 8:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Adair, Delaware | 66 min |
| Jan 7, 8:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee, Wagoner | 43 min |
| Jan 7, 8:24 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner | 4 hr |
| Jan 7, 8:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware | 66 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, 9:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware | 63 min |
| 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, 10:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware | 60 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, 1:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa | 60 min |
| Jan 8, 1:40 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Wagoner | 50 min |
| Jan 8, 2:11 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware | 3 hr |
| Jan 8, 2:31 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Muskogee | 29 min |
| Jan 8, 2:58 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Adair | 32 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.