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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 25, 2015, 6:58 PM CDT for 4 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 32 min. 5 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
- Mar 25, 2015, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2015, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 1.0 in
Counties Cherokee County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 7:23 PM CDT | TORNADO | 1 N Peggs, OK | FENCES BLOWN DOWN |
| Mar 25, 7:24 PM CDT | HAIL 0.25 | Mazie, OK | QUARTER SIZE HAIL MAZIE AND HIGHWAY 69. |
| Mar 25, 7:25 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Locust Grove, OK | TWO POWER POLES AND SOME TREES DOWN. |
| Mar 25, 7:25 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Peggs, OK | PROBABLE TORNADO. 26 TREES BLOWN DOWN...SEVERAL BUILDINGS DAMAGED. SHINGLES OFF A ROOF. SYCAMORE SPRINGS RANCH. |
| Mar 25, 7:25 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Locust Grove, OK |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 2127 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
599
WFUS54 KTSA 252358
TORTSA
OKC021-097-131-145-260030-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0012.150325T2358Z-150326T0030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
658 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2015
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...
EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN ROGERS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA...
NORTHEASTERN WAGONER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA...
* UNTIL 730 PM CDT
* AT 657 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHOUTEAU...AND MOVING EAST
AT 40 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE...MAZIE...CHOUTEAU...
MURPHY...LOCUST GROVE AND PEGGS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. GO TO A DESIGNED SHELTER SUCH AS A SAFE ROOM OR STORM
CELLAR IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF SEEKING SHELTER
IN A BASEMENT...BE SURE TO GET BENEATH SOMETHING STURDY. IF IN A
MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3621 9501 3617 9501 3601 9504 3607 9551
3622 9548
TIME...MOT...LOC 2359Z 275DEG 36KT 3614 9539
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.00IN
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 7:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Haskell | 29 min |
| Mar 24, 8:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer | 45 min |
| Mar 24, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore | 41 min |
| Mar 24, 8:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pushmataha | 34 min |
| Mar 24, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 45 min |
| Mar 24, 9:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 30 min |
| Mar 24, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 47 min |
| Mar 24, 9:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pushmataha | 27 min |
| Mar 24, 10:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pushmataha | 37 min |
| Mar 24, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 28 min |
| Mar 25, 2:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, McIntosh, Mayes and 7 more | 25 hr |
| Mar 25, 2:38 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Adair | 45 hr |
| Mar 25, 2:38 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 3 days |
| Mar 25, 3:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Creek | 25 min |
| Mar 25, 3:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Adair | 36 min |
| Mar 25, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 45 min |
| Mar 25, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Pawnee | 40 min |
| Mar 25, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Delaware | 50 min |
| Mar 25, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee | 45 min |
| Mar 25, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 41 min |
| Mar 25, 4:07 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware | 33 hr |
| Mar 25, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 50 min |
| Mar 25, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 47 min |
| Mar 25, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 39 min |
| Mar 25, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata, Osage, Washington | 50 min |
| Mar 25, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 20 min |
| Mar 25, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington | 42 min |
| Mar 25, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 32 min |
| Mar 25, 5:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 38 min |
| Mar 25, 5:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 3 hr |
| Mar 25, 5:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Tulsa | 36 min |
| Mar 25, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington | 48 min |
| Mar 25, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 30 min |
| Mar 25, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Creek, Mayes, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers and 3 more | 59 min |
| Mar 25, 6:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek, Mayes, Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 26 min |
| Mar 25, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware, Ottawa | 32 min |
| Mar 25, 6:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers, Tulsa | 4 hr |
| Mar 25, 6:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner | 31 min |
| Mar 25, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Delaware, Mayes | 27 min |
| Mar 25, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Mayes, Rogers | 25 min |
| Mar 25, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers and 2 more | 49 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.