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Tornado Warning 64, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jul 24, 2013, 1:06 AM CDT for Latimer County, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 24 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, 1:06 AM CDT (06:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2013, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Latimer County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:05 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.
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 24, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 3646 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1538 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 10.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
784
WFUS54 KTSA 240606
TORTSA
OKC077-121-240630-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0064.130724T0606Z-130724T0630Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
106 AM CDT WED JUL 24 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WESTERN LATIMER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...
EASTERN PITTSBURG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...
* UNTIL 130 AM CDT
* AT 101 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES EAST OF ARROWHEAD STATE PARK...MOVING
SOUTH AT 50 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
BLOCKER...HARTSHORNE AND HIGGINS.
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 3476 9563 3519 9566 3520 9545 3516 9545
3516 9543 3477 9537
TIME...MOT...LOC 0606Z 355DEG 42KT 3509 9554
$$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, 12:19 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Mayes, Muskogee, Sequoyah, Wagoner | 26 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, 1:31 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 |
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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.