Alert archive / Oklahoma / High Wind Warnings in 2011
High Wind Warning 1, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this high wind warning at May 23, 2011, 9:53 PM CDT for 7 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 4 hr. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 2011, 9:53 PM CDT (02:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2011, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
Counties Creek County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 10:00 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Checotah, OK | |
| May 24, 12:25 AM CDT | NON-TSTM WND GST 60 | 4 W Hectorville, OK |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 2770 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 12.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
811 WWUS74 KTSA 240253 NPWTSA URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 953 PM CDT MON MAY 23 2011 OKZ060-064>067-070-071-240700- /O.NEW.KTSA.HW.W.0001.110524T0253Z-110524T0700Z/ TULSA-CREEK-OKFUSKEE-OKMULGEE-WAGONER-MUSKOGEE-MCINTOSH- 953 PM CDT MON MAY 23 2011 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM CDT TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM CDT TUESDAY... FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... * IN OKLAHOMA...WAGONER...CREEK...OKFUSKEE...OKMULGEE... MUSKOGEE...TULSA AND MCINTOSH. HAZARDOUS WEATHER... * LOCAL AREAS OF 50 TO 60 MPH WINDS WILL DEVELOP AS THUNDERSTORMS COLLAPSE ACROSS THE AREA. THESE WINDS WILL BE LOCALIZED AND BRIEF...BUT MAY PRODUCE DAMAGE TO TREES AND POWER LINES DEFINITION... * A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... * MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING. BE ALERT TO SUDDEN GUSTS OF WIND WHICH MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE. EXTRA ATTENTION SHOULD BE GIVEN TO CROSS WINDS AND ON BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES. * STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS WEATHER EVENT. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION CAN ALSO BE FOUND AT: WEATHER.GOV/TULSA. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware, Mayes | 46 min |
| May 23, 7:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Ottawa, Rogers | 6 hr |
| May 23, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 43 min |
| May 23, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 46 min |
| May 23, 8:32 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 24 hr |
| May 23, 8:34 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Sequoyah and 1 more | 116 min |
| May 23, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, Sequoyah | 51 min |
| May 23, 8:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Creek | 49 min |
| May 23, 9:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, Mayes, Muskogee and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 41 min |
| May 23, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 33 min |
| May 23, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 56 min |
| May 23, 10:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 4 hr |
| May 23, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 47 min |
| May 23, 10:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore | 42 min |
| May 23, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 46 min |
| May 23, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 45 min |
| May 23, 11:29 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 2 hr |
| May 24, 12:07 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata and 3 more | 12 hr |
| May 24, 12:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Tulsa | 33 min |
| May 24, 1:33 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TSA | Haskell, LeFlore, McIntosh, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 10 hr |
| May 24, 1:51 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware | 7 hr |
| May 24, 1:51 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 13 hr |
| May 24, 8:22 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 44 hr |
| May 24, 8:25 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 13 hr |
| May 24, 11:55 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Haskell, LeFlore and 8 more | 48 hr |
| May 24, 6:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee | 67 min |
| May 24, 6:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 41 min |
| May 24, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 67 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.