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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 10, 2010Latimer County, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2010, 8:40 PM CDT for Latimer County, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 35 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, 2010, 8:40 PM CDT (01:40 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2010, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Latimer County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:43 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this tornado warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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, 5:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 171 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: 1789 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1693 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 76 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 269 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 259 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 6.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

775 
WFUS54 KTSA 110140
TORTSA
OKC077-121-110215-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0012.100511T0140Z-100511T0215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
840 PM CDT MON MAY 10 2010

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN LATIMER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  CENTRAL PITTSBURG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 837 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTH OF MCALESTER...MOVING EAST AT 45
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  ALDERSON...DAMON...HARTSHORNE...HIGGINS...KREBS...MCALESTER...
  WILBURTON AND YANUSH.

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 3485 9586 3504 9585 3498 9527 3469 9530
      3469 9534
TIME...MOT...LOC 0140Z 279DEG 40KT 3487 9573

$$

1 follow-up statement

905 
WWUS54 KTSA 110156
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
856 PM CDT MON MAY 10 2010

OKC077-121-110215-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0012.000000T0000Z-100511T0215Z/
PITTSBURG OK-LATIMER OK-
856 PM CDT MON MAY 10 2010

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WESTERN LATIMER AND CENTRAL PITTSBURG
COUNTIES CONTINUES...

AT 852 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO LOCATED NEAR
HAILEYVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...GOWEN...
HIGGINS...DAMON...YANUSH AND WILBURTON.

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!

A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR WESTERN
LATIMER AND CENTRAL PITTSBURG COUNTIES.

&&

LAT...LON 3482 9577 3501 9559 3498 9527 3469 9530
      3469 9534
TIME...MOT...LOC 0156Z 277DEG 32KT 3485 9556

$$

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at May 10, 7:58 PM CDT, 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 7:58 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
758 PM CDT MON MAY 10 2010

...MESOSCALE UPDATE...

.DISCUSSION...
THE TORNADIC SUPERCELL NORTHEAST OF CHECOTAH IS QUICKLY LEAVING
SURFACE-BASED INSTABILITY.  THE CAPE IS ONLY AROUND 500 J/KG AROUND
MUSKOGEE.  THIS CELL WILL LOSE ORGANIZATION...BUT BECAUSE OF THE
EXTREMELY FAVORABLE WIND ENVIRONMENT A LOW-LEVEL CIRCULATION COULD
INTENSIFY EVEN DURING THE WEAKENING STAGE.

TWO SUPERCELLS IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO EACH OTHER IN OKMULGEE COUNTY
CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST-NORTHEAST IN THE EXTREMELY SHEARED
ENVIRONMENT.  WE HAVE SEEN LOW-LEVEL CIRCULATIONS PERIODICALLY
TIGHTEN WITH THE NORTH CELL THAT IS APPROACHING OKMULGEE AND
A TORNADO WAS REPORTED WITH THE CELL EARLIER IN OKFUSKEE COUNTY.
AGAIN GIVEN THE SHEAR IN PLACE...LOW-LEVEL CIRCULATIONS COULD
TIGHTEN IN THESE CELLS AT ANY TIME.

A LARGE TORNADIC SUPERCELL IS APPROACHING THE HUGO AREA IN FAR
SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA.  STORM-RELATIVE HELICITY IS NEAR 700 M2/S2
AHEAD OF THE CELL...WITH AN EXCELLENT HODOGRAPH.  THE STORM WILL
BE GOING TOWARD SLIGHTLY LESS SURFACE-BASED CAPE...DOWN TO
AROUND 1400 J/KG...BUT THE SHEAR WILL COMPENSATE AND THE
TORNADO POTENTIAL WILL BE HIGH WITH THE CELL AS IT APPROACHES CHOCTAW
COUNTY.

&&

.TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OK...NONE.
AR...NONE.
&&

SHORT TERM...08

Hazardous weather outlook, May 10, 8:00 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
800 PM CDT MON MAY 10 2010

ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-111000-
ADAIR OK-BENTON AR-CARROLL AR-CHEROKEE OK-CHOCTAW OK-CRAIG OK-
CRAWFORD AR-CREEK OK-DELAWARE OK-FRANKLIN AR-HASKELL OK-LATIMER OK-
LE FLORE OK-MADISON AR-MAYES OK-MCINTOSH OK-MUSKOGEE OK-NOWATA OK-
OKFUSKEE OK-OKMULGEE OK-OSAGE OK-OTTAWA OK-PAWNEE OK-PITTSBURG OK-
PUSHMATAHA OK-ROGERS OK-SEBASTIAN AR-SEQUOYAH OK-TULSA OK-WAGONER OK-
WASHINGTON OK-WASHINGTON AR-
800 PM CDT MON MAY 10 2010

...VIOLENT TORNADOES LIKELY THIS EVENING...

THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS
MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA.

.DAY ONE...THIS EVENING THROUGH TONIGHT.
TORNADO.
	RISK...SIGNIFICANT.
	AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS.
	ONSET...ONGOING.

	AREA AT GREATEST RISK...ALONG THE INTERSTATE 40 CORRIDOR AND
        SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.
	RISK...CRITICAL.
	AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS.
	ONSET...ONGOING.

	AREA AT GREATEST RISK...ALONG AND SOUTH OF A OKFUSKEE TO
        FAYETTEVILLE LINE.

SIGNIFICANT WINDS.
        RISK...LIMITED.
        AREA...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA.
        ONSET...ONGOING.

DISCUSSION...
DISCRETE SUPERCELLS...WITH A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING
TORNADOES...WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE RAPIDLY EAST ALONG THE INTERSTATE
40 CORRIDOR INTO THE MID TO LATE EVENING. ADDITIONAL SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA THIS EVENING...AND
MAY BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES...VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS.

INSTABILITY LESSENS FARTHER EAST INTO NORTHWEST ARKANSAS...SO THERE IS
SOME QUESTION CONCERNING THE SEVERITY OF THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS
EVENING AS THEY MOVE INTO ARKANSAS.

SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT...
REGIONAL SPOTTER NETWORK HAS BEEN ACTIVATED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.
TUESDAY...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL...HIGH WIND POTENTIAL.
WEDNESDAY...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL...HIGH WIND POTENTIAL.
THURSDAY...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL.
FRIDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL.
SATURDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL.
SUNDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL.

EXTENDED DISCUSSION...
A SLOW MOVING FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL FOCUS REPEATED ROUNDS
OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK.  FORECAST
CONDITIONS DO SUPPORT SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL ESPECIALLY FOR
THE FIRST HALF OF THE UPCOMING WEEK...WITH A TRANSITION TO A
HEAVY RAIN THREAT LIKELY BY LATE WEEK.

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLANNING STATEMENT...
EXPECT ONE OR MORE DAYS WITH SEVERE WEATHER WATCHES AND WARNINGS
DURING THE UPCOMING WEEK.

WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 10, 7:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
722 PM CDT MON MAY 10 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0715 PM     HAIL             2 S HENRYETTA           35.41N 95.98W
05/10/2010  E1.75 INCH       OKMULGEE           OK   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

CKH

Special weather statement, May 10, 7:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
725 PM CDT MON MAY 10 2010

OKZ054>057-110100-
CRAIG OK-NOWATA OK-OSAGE OK-WASHINGTON OK-
725 PM CDT MON MAY 10 2010

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     WESTERN CRAIG...NOWATA...WASHINGTON AND EASTERN OSAGE

AT 725 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTH OF
OCHELATA...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE
AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...NOWATA...DELAWARE...LENAPAH...
WANN...BARTLESVILLE...OCHELATA...DEWEY...COPAN AND SOUTH COFFEYVILLE.

THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL AND WIND
GUSTS TO 40 MPH. RESIDENTS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE
THE SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS UPGRADED TO A WARNING.

LAT...LON 3672 9538 3655 9600 3682 9616 3700 9582
      3700 9550
TIME...MOT...LOC 0025Z 248DEG 39KT 3666 9594

Local storm report, May 10, 7:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
729 PM CDT MON MAY 10 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0726 PM     TORNADO          PIERCE                  35.43N 95.72W
05/10/2010                   MCINTOSH           OK   BROADCAST MEDIA

            TORNADO REPORTED BY NEWS MEDIA. LOCATIONS APPROXIMATE.

&&

SAA

Local storm report, May 10, 7:49 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
749 PM CDT MON MAY 10 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0715 PM     TSTM WND GST     TULSA                   36.13N 95.92W
05/10/2010  E55.00 MPH       TULSA              OK   PUBLIC

0730 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 2 S WYNONA              36.52N 96.33W
05/10/2010  E0.00 MPH        OSAGE              OK   MESONET

            OCCURRED ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF ANY OBSERVED
            THUNDERSTORM.

0735 PM     HAIL             COUNCIL HILL            35.56N 95.65W
05/10/2010  E2.75 INCH       MCINTOSH           OK   AMATEUR RADIO

0740 PM     TORNADO          2 S RENTIESVILLE        35.49N 95.49W
05/10/2010                   MCINTOSH           OK   TRAINED SPOTTER

            TORNADO REPORTED 2 SOUTH OF RENTIESVILLE. RAIN WRAPPED.

0743 PM     TORNADO          7 NE OKEMAH             35.50N 96.22W
05/10/2010                   OKFUSKEE           OK   PUBLIC

            TORNADO SIGHTED AND TREES DOWN. RELAYED FROM OUN.

&&

SAA

Special weather statement, May 10, 7:50 PM CDT, 50 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
750 PM CDT MON MAY 10 2010

OKZ055>057-110145-
CRAIG OK-NOWATA OK-WASHINGTON OK-
750 PM CDT MON MAY 10 2010

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     NORTHERN CRAIG...NOWATA AND WASHINGTON

AT 751 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM SOUTH COFFEYVILLE TO 15 MILES WEST OF NOWATA...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THESE
STORMS INCLUDE...NOWATA...DELAWARE...LENAPAH...WELCH AND SOUTH
COFFEYVILLE.

THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND
GUSTS TO 50 MPH. RESIDENTS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE
THE SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS UPGRADED TO A WARNING.

LAT...LON 3698 9504 3696 9503 3671 9518 3660 9578
      3660 9582 3659 9582 3656 9597 3700 9563
      3700 9504
TIME...MOT...LOC 0051Z 243DEG 41KT 3701 9555 3665 9583

Local storm report, May 10, 8:36 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
836 PM CDT MON MAY 10 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0820 PM     HAIL             4 N BOX                 35.64N 94.98W
05/10/2010  E2.75 INCH       SEQUOYAH           OK   PUBLIC

            SNAKE CREEK WILDERNESS LODGE

&&

SAA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 7:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	28 min
May 10, 7:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Nowata, Washington	35 min
May 10, 7:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	47 min
May 10, 7:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee	39 min
May 10, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg	64 min
May 10, 7:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig, Nowata	55 min
May 10, 7:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Sequoyah	51 min
May 10, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw	60 min
May 10, 8:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Sequoyah	42 min
May 10, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg	52 min
May 10, 9:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg	51 min
May 10, 9:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	50 min
May 10, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore	56 min
May 10, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	27 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.