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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2013, 6:54 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Mayes County, Wagoner County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 36 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 30, 2013, 6:54 PM CDT (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2013, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cherokee County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 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, 6:54 PM CDT | TORNADO | Mazie, OK | MEDIA CHASERS VIDEOED A TORNADO NEAR MAZIE. |
| May 30, 7:24 PM CDT | TORNADO | 2 Se Murphy, OK | THIS TORNADO SNAPPED A COUPLE TREES AND UPROOTED SEVERAL OTHERS. BASED ON THIS DAMAGE...IT WAS RATED EF-1 ON THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE. |
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 |
| May 30, 1:21 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 1066 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WFUS54 KTSA 302354
TORTSA
OKC021-097-145-310030-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0034.130530T2354Z-130531T0030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
654 PM CDT THU MAY 30 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA...
SOUTHERN MAYES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA...
NORTHEASTERN WAGONER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA...
* UNTIL 730 PM CDT
* AT 650 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
CHOUTEAU...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS IS A LIFE THREATENING
SITUATION!
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
CHOUTEAU...LOCUST GROVE...PEGGS AND ROSE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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 9500 3625 9500 3625 9501 3617 9501
3616 9499 3600 9497 3600 9546 3607 9546
3608 9544 3618 9544
TIME...MOT...LOC 2354Z 259DEG 25KT 3609 9538
$$3 follow-up statements
325
WWUS54 KTSA 310002
SVSTSA
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
702 PM CDT THU MAY 30 2013
OKC021-097-145-310030-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0034.000000T0000Z-130531T0030Z/
CHEROKEE OK-MAYES OK-WAGONER OK-
702 PM CDT THU MAY 30 2013
...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN WAGONER...SOUTHERN MAYES AND NORTHWESTERN CHEROKEE
COUNTIES...
AT 659 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR MAZIE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM PRODUCED A
BRIEF TORNADO AND MAY PRODUCE ANOTHER TORNADO AT ANY TIME.
SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
CHOUTEAU...MURPHY...LOCUST GROVE...PEGGS AND ROSE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW! IF NO
UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS!
&&
LAT...LON 3627 9500 3625 9500 3625 9501 3617 9501
3616 9499 3600 9497 3600 9546 3607 9546
3608 9544 3618 9544
TIME...MOT...LOC 0002Z 257DEG 24KT 3612 9534
$$808
WWUS54 KTSA 310008
SVSTSA
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
708 PM CDT THU MAY 30 2013
OKC021-097-145-310030-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0034.000000T0000Z-130531T0030Z/
CHEROKEE OK-MAYES OK-WAGONER OK-
708 PM CDT THU MAY 30 2013
...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN WAGONER...SOUTHERN MAYES AND NORTHWESTERN CHEROKEE
COUNTIES...
AT 703 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR MAZIE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
CHOUTEAU...MURPHY...ROSE...LOCUST GROVE AND PEGGS.
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 9500 3625 9500 3625 9501 3617 9501
3616 9499 3600 9497 3600 9546 3607 9546
3608 9544 3618 9544
TIME...MOT...LOC 0008Z 257DEG 24KT 3611 9533
$$987
WWUS54 KTSA 310013
SVSTSA
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
713 PM CDT THU MAY 30 2013
OKC021-097-145-310030-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0034.000000T0000Z-130531T0030Z/
CHEROKEE OK-MAYES OK-WAGONER OK-
713 PM CDT THU MAY 30 2013
...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN WAGONER...SOUTHERN MAYES AND NORTHERN CHEROKEE
COUNTIES...
AT 712 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR MAZIE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM HAS
PRODUCED SEVERAL BRIEF TORNADOES AND MAY PRODUCE ANOTHER TORNADO AT
ANY TIME.
SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...MURPHY...
ROSE...LOCUST GROVE AND PEGGS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW! IF NO
UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS!
&&
LAT...LON 3617 9501 3616 9499 3614 9499 3612 9498
3605 9498 3605 9533 3609 9539 3619 9540
3627 9500
TIME...MOT...LOC 0013Z 257DEG 24KT 3612 9531
$$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, 1:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 39 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 |
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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.