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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2013, 1:51 PM CDT for Osage County, Pawnee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 39 min. 1 report 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 30, 2013, 1:51 PM CDT (18:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2013, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 2:20 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 6 N Pawnee, OK | ALSO A FEW SMALL TREES DOWNED BY HIGH WINDS |
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 30, 12:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 1807 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 573 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 473 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 598 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 18.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
109
WFUS54 KTSA 301851
TORTSA
OKC113-117-301930-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0031.130530T1851Z-130530T1930Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
151 PM CDT THU MAY 30 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA...
PAWNEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA...
* UNTIL 230 PM CDT
* AT 149 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 9 MILES WEST OF PAWNEE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
PAWNEE...SKEDEE AND BLACKBURN.
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 3653 9658 3624 9653 3625 9693 3633 9693
3633 9703 3633 9704 3645 9704
TIME...MOT...LOC 1851Z 259DEG 21KT 3636 9694
$$2 follow-up statements
376
WWUS54 KTSA 301904
SVSTSA
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
204 PM CDT THU MAY 30 2013
OKC113-117-301930-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0031.000000T0000Z-130530T1930Z/
OSAGE OK-PAWNEE OK-
204 PM CDT THU MAY 30 2013
...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 230 PM CDT FOR PAWNEE AND
CENTRAL OSAGE COUNTIES...
AT 202 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR PAWNEE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...PAWNEE...
SKEDEE AND BLACKBURN.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW! IF NO
UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS!
&&
LAT...LON 3636 9696 3646 9696 3653 9658 3624 9653
3625 9693 3633 9693 3633 9703
TIME...MOT...LOC 1904Z 259DEG 21KT 3635 9685
$$264
WWUS54 KTSA 301915
SVSTSA
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
215 PM CDT THU MAY 30 2013
OKC113-117-301930-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0031.000000T0000Z-130530T1930Z/
OSAGE OK-PAWNEE OK-
215 PM CDT THU MAY 30 2013
...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 230 PM CDT FOR PAWNEE AND
CENTRAL OSAGE COUNTIES...
AT 211 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG LOW LEVEL ROTATION
WAS LOCATED NEAR PAWNEE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. A TORNADO IS
OCCURRING OR IMMINENT.
SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...SKEDEE AND
BLACKBURN.
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 3627 9688 3632 9688 3634 9690 3637 9691
3647 9690 3653 9658 3624 9653
TIME...MOT...LOC 1915Z 259DEG 21KT 3636 9678
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 32 min |
| May 29, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 57 min |
| May 29, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Creek, Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Tulsa and 2 more | 57 min |
| May 29, 8:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okmulgee | 35 min |
| May 29, 9:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Craig | 32 min |
| May 29, 9:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Ottawa | 38 min |
| May 29, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 45 min |
| May 29, 11:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Washington | 26 min |
| May 29, 11:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Muskogee | 37 min |
| May 29, 11:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pawnee | 29 min |
| May 30, 12:21 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Muskogee | 24 min |
| May 30, 12:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 32 min |
| May 30, 12:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 25 min |
| May 30, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 60 min |
| May 30, 1:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Washington | 52 min |
| May 30, 2:36 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Muskogee | 39 min |
| May 30, 4:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 33 min |
| May 30, 4:58 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Osage, Pawnee, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington | 62 min |
| May 30, 6:52 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Osage, Pawnee, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington | 3 hr |
| May 30, 8:14 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Osage | 24 hr |
| May 30, 8:14 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Osage, Tulsa | 43 hr |
| May 30, 8:14 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 42 hr |
| May 30, 8:19 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Washington | 3 days |
| May 30, 8:19 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa | 4 days |
| May 30, 8:22 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 5 days |
| May 30, 8:39 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | McIntosh | 36 min |
| May 30, 9:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Delaware | 41 min |
| May 30, 10:02 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | TSA | Ottawa | 6 hr |
| May 30, 10:02 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | TSA | Adair | 48 hr |
| May 30, 10:02 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | TSA | Cherokee | 35 hr |
| May 30, 10:02 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware | 62 hr |
| May 30, 10:02 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | TSA | Cherokee | 48 hr |
| May 30, 10:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage, Washington | 49 min |
| May 30, 10:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell and 14 more | 50 hr |
| May 30, 11:28 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage, Washington | 47 min |
| May 30, 11:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 40 min |
| May 30, 12:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage, Pawnee, Washington | 28 min |
| May 30, 12:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage | 4 hr |
| May 30, 12:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 64 min |
| May 30, 1:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 36 min |
| May 30, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 61 min |
| May 30, 1:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 37 min |
| May 30, 2:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 31 min |
| May 30, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 46 min |
| May 30, 3:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 66 min |
| May 30, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington | 63 min |
| May 30, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek, Pawnee | 58 min |
| May 30, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Ottawa, Rogers | 47 min |
| May 30, 4:20 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 39 hr |
| May 30, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers, Tulsa | 62 min |
| May 30, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 27 min |
| May 30, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Ottawa, Rogers | 54 min |
| May 30, 4:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Adair | 37 min |
| May 30, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Mayes | 45 min |
| May 30, 5:06 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 84 min |
| May 30, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa, Wagoner | 61 min |
| May 30, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 66 min |
| May 30, 5:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Rogers | 46 min |
| May 30, 5:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Ottawa | 38 min |
| May 30, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Mayes | 45 min |
| May 30, 6:08 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Creek, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Osage and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 6:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Delaware, Mayes | 29 min |
| May 30, 6:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pawnee | 27 min |
| May 30, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 56 min |
| May 30, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Mayes, Wagoner | 36 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.