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Tornado Warning 77, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 10, 2008McIntosh County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2008, 5:19 PM CDT for McIntosh County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 26 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 10, 2008, 5:19 PM CDT (22:19 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2008, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon

County McIntosh County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 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.

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 10, 1:38 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 181 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 146 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -598 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1471 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 544 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 682 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KTSA 102219
TORTSA
OKC091-102245-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0077.080510T2219Z-080510T2245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
519 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 517 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR CHECOTAH...
  MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...RENTIESVILLE.

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 3556 9535 3542 9534 3539 9556 3556 9555
TIME...MOT...LOC 2219Z 261DEG 22KT 3546 9553

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 11:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Wagoner	46 min
May 10, 11:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Wagoner	56 min
May 10, 12:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	30 min
May 10, 1:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh	65 min
May 10, 1:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, Muskogee, Sequoyah	59 min
May 10, 2:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Sequoyah	46 min
May 10, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore	57 min
May 10, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, LeFlore, Sequoyah	65 min
May 10, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	57 min
May 10, 3:23 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 16 more	19 hr
May 10, 4:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh	23 min
May 10, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg	61 min
May 10, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Sequoyah, Wagoner	59 min
May 10, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers	52 min
May 10, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg	63 min
May 10, 5:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg	61 min
May 10, 5:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg	59 min
May 10, 5:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Delaware, Mayes	66 min
May 10, 5:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Craig, Ottawa	49 min
May 10, 5:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	31 min
May 10, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	59 min
May 10, 5:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Muskogee	41 min
May 10, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg	46 min
May 10, 5:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pittsburg, Pushmataha	41 min
May 10, 5:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Delaware	53 min
May 10, 5:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	49 min
May 10, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	59 min
May 10, 6:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Delaware	40 min
May 10, 6:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Sequoyah	34 min
May 10, 6:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore	44 min
May 10, 6:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha	42 min
May 10, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	49 min
May 10, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	45 min
May 10, 6:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	LeFlore	38 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.