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Tornado Warning 62, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jul 24, 2013, 12:19 AM CDT for 6 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 26 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
- Jul 24, 2013, 12:19 AM CDT (05:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2013, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 2629 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1440 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
534 WFUS54 KTSA 240519 TORTSA OKC001-021-097-101-135-145-240545- /O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0062.130724T0519Z-130724T0545Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1219 AM CDT WED JUL 24 2013 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHEROKEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA... NORTHEASTERN MUSKOGEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA... NORTHWESTERN SEQUOYAH COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA... WESTERN ADAIR COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA... SOUTHERN MAYES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA... SOUTHEASTERN WAGONER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA... * UNTIL 1245 AM CDT * AT 1218 AM CDT...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADOS WAS LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES WEST OF PEGGS TO 3 MILES NORTH OF OKAY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE... SEQUOYAH STATE PARK...PEGGS...FORT GIBSON...HULBERT...PUMPKIN CENTER...TAHLEQUAH...ELDON...CHEROKEE LANDING STATE PARK AND COOKSON. 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 3595 9476 3559 9495 3587 9544 3619 9527 TIME...MOT...LOC 0519Z 304DEG 45KT 3604 9521 3589 9530 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 7:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Wagoner | 30 min |
| Jul 23, 7:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 24 min |
| Jul 23, 9:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Adair | 24 min |
| Jul 23, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee | 37 min |
| Jul 23, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes, Rogers | 34 min |
| Jul 23, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Mayes, Rogers | 48 min |
| Jul 23, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata, Osage, Ottawa, Washington | 62 min |
| Jul 23, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata and 5 more | 58 min |
| Jul 23, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okmulgee, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 56 min |
| Jul 23, 11:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa, Wagoner | 43 min |
| Jul 23, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Mayes, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Osage, Rogers and 2 more | 34 min |
| Jul 23, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Pawnee, Tulsa | 30 min |
| Jul 23, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers and 1 more | 58 min |
| Jul 23, 11:51 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Creek, Okmulgee, Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 54 min |
| Jul 24, 12:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Creek, McIntosh, Mayes, Muskogee and 4 more | 52 min |
| Jul 24, 12:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Ottawa | 105 min |
| Jul 24, 12:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa, Wagoner | 6 hr |
| Jul 24, 12:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh and 6 more | 67 min |
| Jul 24, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee | 44 min |
| Jul 24, 12:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 44 min |
| Jul 24, 12:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, LeFlore, Mayes and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 24, 1:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha | 6 hr |
| Jul 24, 1:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg | 24 min |
| Jul 24, 1:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 59 min |
| Jul 24, 1:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 56 min |
| Jul 24, 1:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 44 min |
| Jul 24, 2:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Pushmataha | 61 min |
| Jul 24, 6:54 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 24, 3:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 16 more | 52 hr |
Nearby
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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.