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Tornado Warning 60, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 1, 2008, 8:45 PM CDT for Creek County, Pawnee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 31 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
- May 1, 2008, 8:45 PM CDT (01:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2008, 9:16 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Creek County, OK, Pawnee County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 340 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3058 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KTSA 020146
TORTSA
OKC037-117-020245-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0060.080502T0145Z-080502T0245Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
845 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN CREEK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
PAWNEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 945 PM CDT
* AT 843 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 13 MILES WEST OF
SHAMROCK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...SHAMROCK...
DRUMRIGHT...OILTON...JENNINGS...HALLETT...TERLTON AND MANNFORD.
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 3621 9640 3603 9624 3584 9662 3587 9663
3615 9664 3616 9666 3618 9668 3631 9656
TIME...MOT...LOC 0145Z 226DEG 27KT 3588 9680
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS54 KTSA 020216
SVSTSA
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
916 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2008
OKC037-117-020226-
/O.CAN.KTSA.TO.W.0060.000000T0000Z-080502T0245Z/
CREEK OK-PAWNEE OK-
916 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2008
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR PAWNEE AND NORTHWESTERN CREEK COUNTIES IS
CANCELLED...
THE THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...THEREFORE THE
TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM.
LAT...LON 3621 9640 3603 9624 3584 9662 3587 9663
3615 9664 3616 9666 3618 9668 3631 9656
TIME...MOT...LOC 0216Z 226DEG 27KT 3603 9659
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 67 min |
| May 1, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 67 min |
| May 1, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 63 min |
| May 1, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 62 min |
| May 1, 9:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 30 min |
| May 2, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 64 min |
| May 2, 1:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Tulsa | 62 min |
| May 2, 1:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers, Tulsa and 1 more | 63 min |
| May 2, 2:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, McIntosh, Mayes, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee and 4 more | 62 min |
| May 2, 2:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Ottawa, Rogers | 61 min |
| May 2, 3:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Mayes | 31 min |
| May 2, 3:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Mayes and 4 more | 59 min |
| May 2, 3:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa | 60 min |
| May 2, 4:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Adair, Delaware | 43 min |
| May 2, 4:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg and 1 more | 64 min |
| May 2, 5:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 80 min |
| May 2, 5:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pushmataha | 45 min |
| May 2, 6:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Pushmataha | 54 min |
| May 2, 6:12 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Osage | 30 days |
| May 2, 6:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 47 min |
| May 2, 7:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 48 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.