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Tornado Warning 84, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2011, 7:36 PM CDT for Creek County, Okfuskee County, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 39 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2011, 7:36 PM CDT (00:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2011, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Creek County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 8:15 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 S Beggs, OK | TOR085 TREES BLOWN DOWN. |
| May 24, 8:17 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 5 W Beggs, OK |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 12:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 11 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 276 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
- 1213 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 941 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 6.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
851
WFUS54 KTSA 250036
TORTSA
OKC037-107-111-250115-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0084.110525T0036Z-110525T0115Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
736 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN OKFUSKEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
SOUTHERN CREEK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
WESTERN OKMULGEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 815 PM CDT
* AT 734 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 2 MILES EAST OF PADEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50
MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
CASTLE...WELTY...OKFUSKEE...SLICK AND BEGGS.
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 3587 9626 3574 9603 3542 9644 3542 9645
3545 9645 3545 9647 3544 9648 3544 9649
3553 9661
TIME...MOT...LOC 0037Z 225DEG 42KT 3552 9650
$$1 follow-up statement
098 WWUS54 KTSA 250046 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 746 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011 OKC037-107-111-250115- /O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0084.000000T0000Z-110525T0115Z/ CREEK OK-OKFUSKEE OK-OKMULGEE OK- 746 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011 ...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR WESTERN OKMULGEE...NORTHERN OKFUSKEE AND SOUTHERN CREEK COUNTIES... AT 743 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO LOCATED NEAR MASON... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...MASON... WELTY...OKFUSKEE...SLICK AND BEGGS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW! IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS! && LAT...LON 3544 9642 3556 9658 3587 9626 3574 9603 TIME...MOT...LOC 0046Z 228DEG 35KT 3558 9640 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington | 56 min |
| May 24, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, McIntosh, Mayes, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee and 3 more | 48 min |
| May 24, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 31 min |
| May 24, 8:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner | 43 min |
| May 24, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Mayes, Nowata, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 40 min |
| May 24, 8:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 39 min |
| May 24, 8:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Ottawa, Rogers | 6 hr |
| May 24, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner | 40 min |
| May 24, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata and 4 more | 66 min |
| May 24, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 63 min |
| May 24, 8:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Mayes, Muskogee, Wagoner | 5 hr |
| May 24, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 64 min |
| May 24, 9:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Wagoner | 46 min |
| May 24, 9:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg | 48 min |
| May 24, 9:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha | 42 min |
| May 24, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa | 48 min |
| May 24, 9:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes | 43 min |
| May 24, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg | 65 min |
| May 24, 10:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore | 47 min |
| May 24, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware | 65 min |
| May 24, 10:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee | 26 min |
| May 24, 10:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 3 hr |
| May 24, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 67 min |
| May 24, 10:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Adair | 36 min |
| May 24, 10:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 49 min |
| May 24, 11:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Adair | 42 min |
| May 24, 11:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 33 min |
| May 24, 11:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 34 min |
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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.