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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 2011, 8:38 PM CDT for Latimer County, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 28 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
- Apr 14, 2011, 8:38 PM CDT (01:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2011, 9:06 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Latimer County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 2:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 4948 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
277
WFUS54 KTSA 150138
TORTSA
OKC077-121-150245-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0027.110415T0138Z-110415T0245Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
838 PM CDT THU APR 14 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN LATIMER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
SOUTHERN PITTSBURG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 945 PM CDT
* AT 836 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KIOWA...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 30 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH STRONG LOW LEVEL
ROTATION...A TORNADO IS OCCURRING OR COULD FORM AT ANY TIME.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...KIOWA...
BLANCO...HARTSHORNE AND HIGGINS.
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 9589 3468 9589 3468 9601 3499 9549
3474 9531 3459 9585
TIME...MOT...LOC 0138Z 238DEG 24KT 3460 9596
$$1 follow-up statement
803
WWUS54 KTSA 150206
SVSTSA
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
906 PM CDT THU APR 14 2011
OKC077-121-150217-
/O.CAN.KTSA.TO.W.0027.000000T0000Z-110415T0245Z/
PITTSBURG OK-LATIMER OK-
906 PM CDT THU APR 14 2011
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN LATIMER AND SOUTHERN
PITTSBURG COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE TORNADIC PORTION OF THE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM.
LAT...LON 3460 9589 3468 9589 3468 9601 3499 9549
3474 9531 3459 9585
TIME...MOT...LOC 0207Z 238DEG 24KT 3470 9576
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner | 44 min |
| Apr 14, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Mayes | 51 min |
| Apr 14, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 39 min |
| Apr 14, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes, Muskogee, Rogers, Wagoner | 51 min |
| Apr 14, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg | 43 min |
| Apr 14, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Delaware | 42 min |
| Apr 14, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Delaware | 36 min |
| Apr 14, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 65 min |
| Apr 14, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware, Ottawa | 45 min |
| Apr 14, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha | 55 min |
| Apr 14, 8:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Mayes, Wagoner | 40 min |
| Apr 14, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 63 min |
| Apr 14, 8:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore | 48 min |
| Apr 14, 8:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Tulsa | 31 min |
| Apr 14, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore | 46 min |
| Apr 14, 8:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore | 42 min |
| Apr 14, 8:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg | 35 min |
| Apr 14, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 30 min |
| Apr 14, 9:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okmulgee | 24 min |
| Apr 14, 9:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 61 min |
| Apr 14, 9:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Latimer | 39 min |
| Apr 14, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Mayes, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner | 64 min |
| Apr 14, 9:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha | 64 min |
| Apr 14, 9:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pittsburg | 34 min |
| Apr 14, 9:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 42 min |
| Apr 14, 9:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 32 min |
| Apr 14, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner | 30 min |
| Apr 14, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 37 min |
| Apr 14, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner | 46 min |
| Apr 14, 10:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 58 min |
| Apr 14, 10:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Pushmataha | 34 min |
| Apr 14, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 45 min |
| Apr 14, 10:36 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | LeFlore, Pushmataha, Sequoyah | 114 min |
| Apr 14, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha | 46 min |
| Apr 14, 10:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Delaware | 40 min |
| Apr 14, 10:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Ottawa | 19 min |
| Apr 15, 4:12 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | TSA | Choctaw, Creek, Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Muskogee and 10 more | 21 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.