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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Feb 10, 2009, 5:38 PM CST for Osage County, Washington County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 52 min. 11 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
- Feb 10, 2009, 5:38 PM CST (23:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 10, 2009, 6:30 PM CST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Osage County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 5:38 PM CST | HAIL 0.75 | 3 E Pawhuska, OK | |
| Feb 10, 5:40 PM CST | HAIL 1 | Pawhuska, OK | |
| Feb 10, 5:44 PM CST | HAIL 2.75 | Nelagoney, OK | |
| Feb 10, 5:45 PM CST | HAIL 1 | Pawhuska, OK | |
| Feb 10, 5:51 PM CST | HAIL 4.25 | Okesa, OK | BROKE OUT CAR WINDOWS |
| Feb 10, 5:57 PM CST | HAIL 1 | 4 S Pawhuska, OK | HAIL COVERED THE GROUND |
| Feb 10, 6:20 PM CST | HAIL 1 | 5 W Bartlesville, OK | HAIL COVERING THE GROUND NEAR HWY 60. |
| Feb 10, 6:20 PM CST | HAIL 1 | Copan, OK | |
| Feb 10, 6:22 PM CST | HAIL 1.25 | 3 N Bartlesville, OK | |
| Feb 10, 6:22 PM CST | HAIL 1.75 | Copan, OK | |
| Feb 10, 6:30 PM CST | HAIL 1.5 | 2 N Dewey, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 2:42 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2319 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KTSA 102338
TORTSA
OKC113-147-110030-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0003.090210T2338Z-090211T0030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
538 PM CST TUE FEB 10 2009
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 630 PM CST
* AT 534 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR WYNONA...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...PAWHUSKA...
BARNSDALL...OKESA...BIGHEART...BARTLESVILLE...DEWEY...HULAH AND
COPAN.
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 3699 9581 3693 9581 3692 9582 3676 9582
3665 9596 3645 9629 3657 9644 3678 9640
3699 9633 3700 9609
TIME...MOT...LOC 2338Z 225DEG 44KT 3659 9627
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS54 KTSA 110019
SVSTSA
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
619 PM CST TUE FEB 10 2009
OKC113-147-110030-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-090211T0030Z/
WASHINGTON OK-OSAGE OK-
620 PM CST TUE FEB 10 2009
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM CST FOR
NORTHEASTERN OSAGE AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES...
AT 616 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR COPAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
THE WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED
COUNTY.
IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW IF NO
UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS
LAT...LON 3681 9600 3697 9612 3700 9609 3699 9581
3693 9581 3692 9582 3678 9582
TIME...MOT...LOC 0020Z 225DEG 44KT 3689 9591
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 2:10 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer | 35 min |
| Feb 10, 2:46 PM CST | Flood Watch | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 15 more | 13 hr |
| Feb 10, 2:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg | 39 min |
| Feb 10, 3:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore | 51 min |
| Feb 10, 3:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 27 min |
| Feb 10, 3:38 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pittsburg | 52 min |
| Feb 10, 3:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 61 min |
| Feb 10, 4:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 40 min |
| Feb 10, 4:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 25 min |
| Feb 10, 4:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 46 min |
| Feb 10, 5:47 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 4 hr |
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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.