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Tornado Warning 66, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2008, 6:41 PM CDT for Creek County, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 64 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 7, 2008, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2008, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Creek County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 6:55 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 75 | 4 E Beggs, OK | LOCATION NEAR HIGHWAY 75 AND HIGHWAY 16 |
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 7, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 1715 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 612 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KTSA 072341
TORTSA
OKC037-111-080045-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0066.080507T2341Z-080508T0045Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
641 PM CDT WED MAY 7 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN CREEK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
NORTHWESTERN OKMULGEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 745 PM CDT
* AT 640 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF BEGGS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...SLICK...
OKMULGEE...BEGGS AND PRESTON.
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 3585 9576 3551 9603 3562 9619 3564 9618
3564 9619 3564 9626 3566 9635 3587 9627
TIME...MOT...LOC 2341Z 223DEG 34KT 3565 9613
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS54 KTSA 072353
SVSTSA
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
653 PM CDT WED MAY 7 2008
OKC037-111-080045-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0066.000000T0000Z-080508T0045Z/
OKMULGEE OK-CREEK OK-
653 PM CDT WED MAY 7 2008
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR SOUTHERN
CREEK AND NORTHWESTERN OKMULGEE COUNTIES...
AT 648 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A
POTENTIALLY TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG LOW LEVEL ROTATION.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BEGGS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. A
SECOND STORM WITH STRONG ROTATION WAS ALSO DETECTED 3 MILES NORTH OF
OKMULGEE. THESE ARE A DANGEROUS STORMS...A TORNADO IS OCCURRING OR
COULD FORM AT ANY TIME.
SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...HECTORVILLE.
IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW IF NO
UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS
LAT...LON 3585 9576 3552 9603 3562 9619 3564 9618
3564 9619 3564 9626 3566 9635 3587 9627
TIME...MOT...LOC 2353Z 222DEG 43KT 3576 9600
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 3:02 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 5 days |
| May 7, 3:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Ottawa, Washington | 24 hr |
| May 7, 6:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Rogers | 45 min |
| May 7, 6:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Mayes, Rogers | 63 min |
| May 7, 6:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee | 25 min |
| May 7, 7:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware, Mayes | 53 min |
| May 7, 7:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 48 min |
| May 7, 7:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner | 56 min |
| May 7, 8:18 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Creek, Mayes, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Osage, Pawnee and 3 more | 33 days |
| May 7, 8:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Delaware | 65 min |
| May 7, 9:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes | 45 min |
| May 7, 9:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Muskogee | 43 min |
| May 7, 9:30 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 58 hr |
| May 7, 9:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Cherokee | 31 min |
| May 7, 10:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Creek | 36 min |
| May 7, 11:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 42 min |
| May 7, 11:19 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Cherokee, Creek, Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Muskogee and 8 more | 33 days |
| May 7, 12:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee and 7 more | 37 days |
| May 7, 12:48 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Craig, Creek, Nowata, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Osage and 3 more | 37 days |
| May 7, 1:14 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Nowata and 3 more | 37 days |
| May 7, 2:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa, Rogers | 6 hr |
| May 7, 2:42 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Nowata | 18 hr |
| May 7, 4:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee | 61 min |
| May 7, 5:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Creek | 59 min |
| May 7, 5:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okfuskee | 27 min |
| May 7, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 46 min |
| May 7, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 43 min |
| May 7, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 67 min |
| May 7, 6:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee | 5 hr |
| May 7, 6:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 6 hr |
| May 7, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh, Muskogee and 5 more | 64 min |
| May 7, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Mayes, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Rogers, Tulsa and 1 more | 63 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.