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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2013, 9:10 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Muskogee County, Wagoner County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 35 min. 5 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
- Mar 30, 2013, 9:10 PM CDT (02:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2013, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cherokee County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:11 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 9:20 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 2 E Tullahassee, OK | NEAR HWY 69 AND HWY 51B. |
| Mar 30, 9:30 PM CDT | HAIL 3 | 3 Wnw Fort Gibson, OK | |
| Mar 30, 9:35 PM CDT | TORNADO | 3 W Fort Gibson, OK | A TORNADO DAMAGED A CENTER-PIVOT IRRIGATION SYSTEM...DAMAGED THE ROOF OF A HOME...DAMAGED BARNS...SNAPPED LARGE TREE LIMBS...AND BLEW DOWN A COUPLE POWER POLES. |
| Mar 30, 9:36 PM CDT | HAIL 2.5 | Muskogee, OK | TENNIS BALL SIZED HAIL NEAR THE OG AND E PLANT IN MUSKOGEE. |
| Mar 30, 9:45 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Fort Gibson, OK | HAIL COVERING THE GROUND. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 453 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1112 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
885 WFUS54 KTSA 310210 TORTSA OKC021-101-145-310245- /O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0002.130331T0210Z-130331T0245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 910 PM CDT SAT MAR 30 2013 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA... NORTHEASTERN MUSKOGEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA... SOUTHEASTERN WAGONER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA... * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 907 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF TULLAHASSEE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...OKAY AND FORT GIBSON. 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 3576 9511 3565 9528 3587 9549 3596 9536 TIME...MOT...LOC 0211Z 317DEG 24KT 3584 9537 $$
1 follow-up statement
558 WWUS54 KTSA 310217 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 917 PM CDT SAT MAR 30 2013 OKC021-101-145-310245- /O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-130331T0245Z/ CHEROKEE OK-MUSKOGEE OK-WAGONER OK- 917 PM CDT SAT MAR 30 2013 ...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN WAGONER...NORTHEASTERN MUSKOGEE AND WESTERN CHEROKEE COUNTIES... AT 916 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR OKAY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...MUSKOGEE AND FORT GIBSON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IN ADDITION TO A TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BASEBALL SIZE HAIL. IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE TAKE COVER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. && LAT...LON 3576 9511 3565 9528 3587 9549 3596 9536 TIME...MOT...LOC 0217Z 317DEG 24KT 3581 9534 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 7:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Tulsa | 32 min |
| Mar 30, 7:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okfuskee | 35 min |
| Mar 30, 7:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Wagoner | 34 min |
| Mar 30, 7:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Mayes | 25 min |
| Mar 30, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner | 63 min |
| Mar 30, 8:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Nowata | 29 min |
| Mar 30, 8:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Rogers | 36 min |
| Mar 30, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Mayes, Rogers | 52 min |
| Mar 30, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee, Wagoner | 60 min |
| Mar 30, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Ottawa, Rogers | 67 min |
| Mar 30, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Ottawa | 56 min |
| Mar 30, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware, Mayes, Rogers | 54 min |
| Mar 30, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee, Sequoyah, Wagoner | 59 min |
| Mar 30, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 57 min |
| Mar 30, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes | 56 min |
| Mar 30, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Haskell, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 66 min |
| Mar 30, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 64 min |
| Mar 30, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 67 min |
| Mar 30, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Sequoyah | 41 min |
| Mar 30, 11:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pushmataha | 37 min |
| Mar 30, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 67 min |
| Mar 30, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 62 min |
| Mar 31, 12:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 67 min |
| Mar 31, 3:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 63 min |
| Mar 31, 3:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage, Pawnee, Washington | 47 min |
| Mar 31, 4:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Craig, Creek, Nowata, Pawnee, Rogers, Tulsa and 1 more | 55 min |
| Mar 31, 5:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Delaware, Mayes, Tulsa, Wagoner | 47 min |
| Mar 31, 5:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg | 43 min |
| Mar 31, 5:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 31 min |
| Mar 31, 5:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg | 47 min |
| Mar 31, 6:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Choctaw | 40 min |
| Mar 31, 6:42 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pushmataha | 63 min |
| Mar 31, 7:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 59 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.