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Tornado Warning 116, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Nov 8, 2011, 12:29 PM CST for Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 31 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, 12:29 PM CST (18:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 8, 2011, 1:00 PM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Pushmataha County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:30 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 209 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.
457 WFUS54 KTSA 081829 TORTSA OKC127-081900- /O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0116.111108T1829Z-111108T1900Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1229 PM CST TUE NOV 8 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL PUSHMATAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 100 PM CST * AT 1226 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTH OF SNOW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...SNOW... CLAYTON LAKE STATE PARK AND 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 3460 9530 3443 9505 3428 9543 3434 9550 TIME...MOT...LOC 1830Z 227DEG 32KT 3434 9540 $$
1 follow-up statement
346 WWUS54 KTSA 081847 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1247 PM CST TUE NOV 8 2011 OKC127-081900- /O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0116.000000T0000Z-111108T1900Z/ PUSHMATAHA OK- 1247 PM CST TUE NOV 8 2011 ...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM CST FOR CENTRAL PUSHMATAHA COUNTY... AT 1243 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NASHOBA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...CLAYTON LAKE STATE PARK AND NASHOBA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW! IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS! && LAT...LON 3436 9530 3440 9536 3460 9530 3443 9505 TIME...MOT...LOC 1848Z 227DEG 32KT 3445 9526 $$
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, 11:00 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, 12:57 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.