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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 2009, 6:47 PM CDT for Adair County, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 28 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
- Jun 10, 2009, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2009, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Adair County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 7:00 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 8 Ene Marble City, OK | TREE ON HOME. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 1058 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -178 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 390 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 408 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 16.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KTSA 102347 TORTSA OKC001-135-110015- /O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0027.090610T2347Z-090611T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 647 PM CDT WED JUN 10 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN SEQUOYAH COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA SOUTHEASTERN ADAIR COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 647 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BRUSHY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BRUSHY AND SHORT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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 3547 9480 3559 9488 3576 9449 3556 9446 TIME...MOT...LOC 2347Z 245DEG 36KT 3553 9478 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KTSA 110005 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 705 PM CDT WED JUN 10 2009 OKC001-135-110015- /O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0027.000000T0000Z-090611T0015Z/ ADAIR OK-SEQUOYAH OK- 705 PM CDT WED JUN 10 2009 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR NORTHEASTERN SEQUOYAH AND SOUTHEASTERN ADAIR COUNTIES... AT 704 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES WEST OF SHORT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...SHORT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS IN ADDITION TO A TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE TAKE COVER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. && LAT...LON 3556 9446 3551 9465 3566 9473 3576 9449 TIME...MOT...LOC 0005Z 239DEG 32KT 3562 9464 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 48 min |
| Jun 9, 8:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 27 min |
| Jun 9, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 54 min |
| Jun 9, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 66 min |
| Jun 9, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Nowata, Ottawa | 40 min |
| Jun 9, 9:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Washington | 36 min |
| Jun 9, 9:25 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Craig, Ottawa | 65 min |
| Jun 9, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Ottawa | 60 min |
| Jun 9, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes | 55 min |
| Jun 10, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Pawnee | 37 min |
| Jun 10, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 44 min |
| Jun 10, 4:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okfuskee | 54 min |
| Jun 10, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 38 min |
| Jun 10, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata, Rogers, Washington | 47 min |
| Jun 10, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Pittsburg | 71 min |
| Jun 10, 5:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Ottawa | 24 min |
| Jun 10, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg | 67 min |
| Jun 10, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh, Muskogee and 3 more | 56 min |
| Jun 10, 6:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell, Sequoyah | 28 min |
| Jun 10, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Muskogee and 2 more | 66 min |
Nearby
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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.