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Tornado Warning 114, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Nov 8, 2011, 11:00 AM CST for LeFlore County, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 30 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, 11:00 AM CST (17:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 8, 2011, 11:30 AM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties LeFlore County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 10:49 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 238 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
540 WFUS54 KTSA 081700 TORTSA OKC079-127-081730- /O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0114.111108T1700Z-111108T1730Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1100 AM CST TUE NOV 8 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN LE FLORE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA NORTHEASTERN PUSHMATAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 1130 AM CST * AT 1056 AM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WHITESBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... WHITESBORO AND MUSE. 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 3480 9479 3463 9466 3450 9506 3456 9510 TIME...MOT...LOC 1700Z 239DEG 38KT 3456 9502 $$
1 follow-up statement
920 WWUS54 KTSA 081719 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1119 AM CST TUE NOV 8 2011 OKC079-127-081730- /O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0114.000000T0000Z-111108T1730Z/ LE FLORE OK-PUSHMATAHA OK- 1119 AM CST TUE NOV 8 2011 ...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1130 AM CST FOR NORTHEASTERN PUSHMATAHA AND SOUTHERN LE FLORE COUNTIES... AT 1118 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO LOCATED NEAR MUSE... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...MUSE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW! IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS! && LAT...LON 3463 9501 3480 9479 3463 9466 3454 9495 TIME...MOT...LOC 1719Z 239DEG 38KT 3466 9481 $$
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, 10:27 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 33 min |
| Nov 8, 10:51 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 54 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.