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Tornado Warning 43, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2013, 5:29 PM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 46 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
- May 31, 2013, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2013, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Osage County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 3:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 1951 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 775 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
937 WFUS54 KTSA 312229 TORTSA OKC113-312315- /O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0043.130531T2229Z-130531T2315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 529 PM CDT FRI MAY 31 2013 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA... * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 526 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 3 MILES EAST OF GRAINOLA OVER NORTHERN OSAGE COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY... 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 3686 9654 3699 9665 3701 9662 3700 9616 TIME...MOT...LOC 2228Z 240DEG 35KT 3695 9650 $$
1 follow-up statement
293 WWUS54 KTSA 312237 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 537 PM CDT FRI MAY 31 2013 OKC113-312315- /O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0043.000000T0000Z-130531T2315Z/ OSAGE OK- 537 PM CDT FRI MAY 31 2013 ...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN OSAGE COUNTY... AT 535 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 9 MILES EAST OF GRAINOLA OVER NORTHERN OSAGE COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW! IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS! && LAT...LON 3688 9648 3700 9651 3700 9616 TIME...MOT...LOC 2237Z 242DEG 35KT 3697 9640 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 55 min |
| May 30, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes | 49 min |
| May 30, 7:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Rogers | 44 min |
| May 30, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 53 min |
| May 30, 8:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Rogers, Tulsa and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes | 33 min |
| May 30, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 57 min |
| May 30, 8:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Delaware, Mayes | 53 min |
| May 30, 8:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Tulsa, Wagoner | 37 min |
| May 30, 8:52 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Nowata | 24 hr |
| May 30, 9:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner | 40 min |
| May 30, 9:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Delaware | 33 min |
| May 30, 9:28 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Washington | 11 hr |
| May 30, 9:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 40 min |
| May 30, 9:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Adair, Delaware | 53 min |
| May 30, 9:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Cherokee | 29 min |
| May 30, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 64 min |
| May 31, 12:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 40 min |
| May 31, 12:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 5 hr |
| May 31, 1:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 41 min |
| May 31, 5:22 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 18 hr |
| May 31, 11:18 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | TSA | Osage | 23 hr |
| May 31, 11:18 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | TSA | Washington | 23 hr |
| May 31, 11:18 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | TSA | Ottawa | 4 hr |
| May 31, 1:48 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 54 hr |
| May 31, 2:16 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | TSA | Cherokee | 71 hr |
| May 31, 2:16 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware | 29 hr |
| May 31, 3:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Washington | 25 min |
| May 31, 4:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 38 min |
| May 31, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 45 min |
| May 31, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 29 min |
| May 31, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 33 min |
| May 31, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 32 min |
| May 31, 6:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 50 min |
| May 31, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 31 min |
| May 31, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 42 min |
| May 31, 6:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.