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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jan 7, 2008, 7:35 PM CST for Adair County, Cherokee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 55 min. 4 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
- Jan 7, 2008, 7:35 PM CST (01:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 7, 2008, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 7:38 PM CST | HAIL 0.75 | 4 E Tahlequah, OK | |
| Jan 7, 7:40 PM CST | HAIL 2 | Tahlequah, OK | |
| Jan 7, 7:55 PM CST | TSTM WND DMG | Proctor, OK | A TREE WAS BLOWN DOWN. |
| Jan 7, 8:12 PM CST | TSTM WND DMG | 2 N Tahlequah, OK | POWER LINES AND LARGE TREE LIMBS WERE BLOWN DOWN. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 4:02 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 765 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 955 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 281 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 338 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 7.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KTSA 080135 TORTSA OKC001-021-080230- /O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0008.080108T0135Z-080108T0230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 735 PM CST MON JAN 7 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA CENTRAL ADAIR COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 830 PM CST * AT 734 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A POTENTIALLY TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG LOW LEVEL ROTATION 8 MILES SOUTH OF TAHLEQUAH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...A TORNADO IS OCCURRING OR COULD FORM AT ANY TIME. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...TAHLEQUAH... ELDON...PROCTOR...MARIETTA...CHRISTIE...BARON AND WESTVILLE. NIGHTTIME TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS...TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE LAT...LON 3589 9451 3573 9496 3595 9504 3611 9455 TIME...MOT...LOC 0135Z 238DEG 33KT 3580 9495 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KTSA 080145 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 745 PM CST MON JAN 7 2008 OKC001-021-080230- /O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-080108T0230Z/ ADAIR OK-CHEROKEE OK- 745 PM CST MON JAN 7 2008 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM CST FOR EASTERN CHEROKEE AND NORTHERN ADAIR COUNTIES... AT 742 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A POTENTIALLY TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG LOW LEVEL ROTATION. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ELDON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...A TORNADO IS OCCURRING OR COULD FORM AT ANY TIME. SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ELDON... PROCTOR...CHRISTIE...BARON...WESTVILLE AND BALLARD. NIGHTTIME TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS - TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE LAT...LON 3589 9451 3582 9491 3598 9495 3611 9455 TIME...MOT...LOC 0145Z 233DEG 38KT 3589 9485 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 6:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee | 59 min |
| Jan 7, 6:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee | 67 min |
| Jan 7, 6:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 33 min |
| Jan 7, 7:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee | 42 min |
| Jan 7, 7:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Adair, Delaware | 24 min |
| Jan 7, 7:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee | 34 min |
| Jan 7, 7:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee | 41 min |
| Jan 7, 7:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Adair, Delaware | 32 min |
| Jan 7, 7:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee | 50 min |
| Jan 7, 7:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 31 min |
| Jan 7, 7:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Wagoner | 61 min |
| Jan 7, 8:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Rogers, Tulsa and 1 more | 67 min |
| Jan 7, 8:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Adair, Delaware | 66 min |
| Jan 7, 8:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee, Wagoner | 43 min |
| Jan 7, 8:24 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner | 4 hr |
| Jan 7, 8:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware | 66 min |
| Jan 7, 9:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, McIntosh, Mayes, Muskogee and 5 more | 60 min |
| Jan 7, 9:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner | 65 min |
| Jan 7, 9:54 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 3 hr |
| Jan 7, 9:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware | 63 min |
| Jan 7, 9:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 62 min |
| Jan 7, 10:07 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 53 min |
| Jan 7, 10:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware | 60 min |
| Jan 7, 10:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Okmulgee | 38 min |
| Jan 7, 11:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Okmulgee | 34 min |
| Jan 7, 11:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner | 55 min |
| Jan 7, 11:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Wagoner | 61 min |
| Jan 8, 12:15 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Craig, Creek, Mayes, Nowata, Okmulgee, Rogers and 3 more | 30 min |
| Jan 8, 12:59 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Ottawa, Rogers and 2 more | 61 min |
| Jan 8, 1:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa | 60 min |
| Jan 8, 1:40 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Wagoner | 50 min |
| Jan 8, 2:11 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware | 3 hr |
| Jan 8, 2:31 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Muskogee | 29 min |
| Jan 8, 2:58 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Adair | 32 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.