Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 61, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 1, 2008, 9:21 PM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 30 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
- May 1, 2008, 9:21 PM CDT (02:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2008, 9:51 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Osage County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 9:22 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Pawhuska, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 116 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 020221
TORTSA
OKC113-020315-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0061.080502T0221Z-080502T0315Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
921 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
* AT 917 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND STORM
SPOTTERS WERE TRACKING A TORNADO 7 MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST OF
PAWHUSKA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. A TORNADO HAS BEEN
CONFIRMED...TAKE COVER NOW
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...PAWHUSKA...
PEARSONIA...OKESA...BIGHEART AND HULAH.
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 3700 9600 3676 9601 3658 9631 3665 9650
3700 9638
TIME...MOT...LOC 0221Z 217DEG 21KT 3666 9644
$$2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS54 KTSA 020233
SVSTSA
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
933 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2008
OKC113-020315-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0061.000000T0000Z-080502T0315Z/
OSAGE OK-
933 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2008
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1015 PM CDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN OSAGE COUNTY...
AT 929 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A
POTENTIALLY TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG LOW LEVEL ROTATION.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BIGHEART...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BIGHEART AND
HULAH.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES IF
YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW IF NO
UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS
LAT...LON 3700 9600 3676 9601 3669 9633 3676 9640
3700 9638
TIME...MOT...LOC 0233Z 214DEG 31KT 3679 9633
$$000
WWUS54 KTSA 020251
SVSTSA
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
951 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2008
OKC113-020301-
/O.CAN.KTSA.TO.W.0061.000000T0000Z-080502T0315Z/
OSAGE OK-
951 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2008
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN OSAGE COUNTY 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 3700 9600 3676 9601 3669 9633 3676 9640
3700 9638
TIME...MOT...LOC 0251Z 214DEG 31KT 3692 9622
$$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, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek, Pawnee | 31 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.