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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Apr 8, 2008, 2:52 AM CDT for Osage County, Tulsa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 23 min. 2 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
- Apr 8, 2008, 2:52 AM CDT (07:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2008, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Osage County, OK, Tulsa County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 2:54 AM CDT | HAIL 1 | 7 W Skiatook, OK | |
| Apr 8, 3:00 AM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 5 W Sperry, OK | DAMAGE TO A BARN. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Apr 8, 2:52 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1617 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 425 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 835 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KTSA 080752
TORTSA
OKC113-143-080815-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0042.080408T0752Z-080408T0815Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
252 AM CDT TUE APR 8 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
NORTH TULSA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 315 AM CDT
* AT 248 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES WEST OF
SPERRY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...SPERRY...
SKIATOOK...OWASSO AND COLLINSVILLE.
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 3627 9583 3618 9615 3628 9620 3642 9618
3645 9583
TIME...MOT...LOC 0752Z 237DEG 28KT 3631 9613
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS54 KTSA 080817
SVSTSA
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
316 AM CDT TUE APR 8 2008
OKC113-143-080826-
/O.EXP.KTSA.TO.W.0042.000000T0000Z-080408T0815Z/
OSAGE OK-TULSA OK-
316 AM CDT TUE APR 8 2008
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR TULSA AND SOUTHEASTERN OSAGE COUNTIES
EXPIRED AT 315 AM CDT...
THE THUNDERSTORM ROTATION HAS DECREASED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THIS
STORM...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM CDT.
LAT...LON 3627 9583 3618 9615 3628 9620 3642 9618
3645 9583
TIME...MOT...LOC 0752Z 237DEG 28KT 3631 9613
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Pawnee | 90 min |
| Apr 7, 8:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 34 min |
| Apr 7, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 95 min |
| Apr 7, 9:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 26 min |
| Apr 7, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Tulsa, Washington | 35 min |
| Apr 7, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 65 min |
| Apr 7, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 83 min |
| Apr 7, 11:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 22 min |
| Apr 8, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee | 110 min |
| Apr 8, 1:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 61 min |
| Apr 8, 1:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee | 95 min |
| Apr 8, 1:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okmulgee, Tulsa | 67 min |
| Apr 8, 2:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Tulsa | 70 min |
| Apr 8, 2:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 64 min |
| Apr 8, 2:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 86 min |
| Apr 8, 2:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 46 min |
| Apr 8, 2:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Wagoner | 69 min |
| Apr 8, 3:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Mayes, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 82 min |
| Apr 8, 3:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 81 min |
| Apr 8, 3:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa, Washington | 76 min |
| Apr 8, 3:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Mayes, Nowata, Rogers | 58 min |
| Apr 8, 4:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa and 1 more | 85 min |
| Apr 8, 4:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okmulgee | 37 min |
| Apr 8, 4:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 59 min |
| Apr 8, 4:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Craig | 45 min |
| Apr 8, 5:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 47 min |
| Apr 8, 5:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware | 61 min |
| Apr 8, 6:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa, Wagoner | 4 hr |
| Apr 8, 9:58 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Creek | 3 days |
| Apr 8, 5:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 16 more | 43 hr |
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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.