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Tornado Warning 113, NWS Tulsa, OK

November 8, 2011Pushmataha County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Nov 8, 2011, 10:27 AM CST for Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 33 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: Nov 8, 2011, 10:27 AM CST (16:27 UTC)
Expired: Nov 8, 2011, 11:00 AM CST
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Pushmataha County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:27 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 632 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -198 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

040 
WFUS54 KTSA 081627
TORTSA
OKC127-081700-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0113.111108T1627Z-111108T1700Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1027 AM CST TUE NOV 8 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL PUSHMATAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 1100 AM CST

* AT 1022 AM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR SNOW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...NASHOBA.

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 3464 9519 3448 9505 3435 9541 3440 9545
TIME...MOT...LOC 1627Z 231DEG 34KT 3442 9536

$$

1 follow-up statement

972 
WWUS54 KTSA 081649
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1049 AM CST TUE NOV 8 2011

OKC127-081700-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0113.000000T0000Z-111108T1700Z/
PUSHMATAHA OK-
1049 AM CST TUE NOV 8 2011

...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 AM CST FOR CENTRAL
PUSHMATAHA COUNTY...

AT 1048 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO LOCATED NEAR NASHOBA...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS.

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 3441 9530 3444 9534 3464 9519 3448 9505
TIME...MOT...LOC 1649Z 231DEG 34KT 3455 9516

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 7, 6:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	49 min
Nov 7, 7:03 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	42 min
Nov 7, 8:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa	63 min
Nov 7, 9:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington	59 min
Nov 7, 9:48 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek	27 min
Nov 7, 10:31 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa	3 hr
Nov 7, 10:42 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig, Nowata, Ottawa, Rogers	63 min
Nov 7, 10:59 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Creek	3 hr
Nov 7, 11:37 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Tulsa, Washington	3 hr
Nov 8, 12:06 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okfuskee	54 min
Nov 8, 1:06 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee	54 min
Nov 8, 1:52 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee	53 min
Nov 8, 1:55 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh	65 min
Nov 8, 2:59 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair, Sequoyah	61 min
Nov 8, 3:20 AM CST	Flash Flood Watch	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, McIntosh and 11 more	9 hr
Nov 8, 8:17 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	43 min
Nov 8, 8:53 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee	3 hr
Nov 8, 8:58 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg	47 min
Nov 8, 9:31 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell, Sequoyah	44 min
Nov 8, 10:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	43 min
Nov 8, 10:10 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer	35 min
Nov 8, 10:22 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	23 min
Nov 8, 10:51 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	54 min
Nov 8, 11:00 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Pushmataha	30 min
Nov 8, 11:29 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	LeFlore	37 min
Nov 8, 12:19 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	41 min
Nov 8, 12:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	31 min
Nov 8, 12:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	33 min
Nov 8, 1:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Pushmataha	36 min
Nov 8, 1:37 PM CST	River Flood Warning	TSA	Adair	23 hr
Nov 8, 1:37 PM CST	River Flood Warning	TSA	Cherokee	41 hr
Nov 8, 1:42 PM CST	River Flood Advisory	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware	6 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.