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Tornado Warning 74, NWS Tulsa, OK

November 5, 2015Muskogee County, Okmulgee County, Wagoner County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Nov 5, 2015, 2:59 PM CST for Muskogee County, Okmulgee County, Wagoner County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 18 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: Nov 5, 2015, 2:59 PM CST (20:59 UTC)
Expired: Nov 5, 2015, 3:17 PM CST
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 in

Counties Muskogee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Wagoner County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Nov 5, 12:06 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 160 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 541 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 553 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 261 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 268 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 4.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

215 
WFUS54 KTSA 052059
TORTSA
OKC101-111-145-052130-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0074.151105T2059Z-151105T2130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
259 PM CST THU NOV 5 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN OKMULGEE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA...
  SOUTHWESTERN WAGONER COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA...
  NORTHWESTERN MUSKOGEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA...

* UNTIL 330 PM CST
    
* AT 259 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR BALD HILL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO. 

  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...
  OKMULGEE...                       COWETA...
  HASKELL...                        PORTER...
  STONEBLUFF...                     BALD HILL...
  REDBIRD...                        CHOSKA...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3564 9593 3576 9601 3598 9555 3585 9544
TIME...MOT...LOC 2059Z 239DEG 49KT 3574 9589 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN

$$

1 follow-up statement

355 
WWUS54 KTSA 052117
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
317 PM CST THU NOV 5 2015

OKC101-111-145-052127-
/O.CAN.KTSA.TO.W.0074.000000T0000Z-151105T2130Z/
OKMULGEE OK-WAGONER OK-MUSKOGEE OK-
317 PM CST THU NOV 5 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN OKMULGEE...SOUTHWESTERN
WAGONER AND NORTHWESTERN MUSKOGEE COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST FOR NORTHEASTERN
OKLAHOMA.

LAT...LON 3564 9593 3576 9601 3598 9555 3585 9544
TIME...MOT...LOC 2115Z 239DEG 49KT 3587 9563 

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 5, 10:36 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pawnee	39 min
Nov 5, 10:54 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pawnee	36 min
Nov 5, 11:16 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	44 min
Nov 5, 11:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Washington	32 min
Nov 5, 11:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Osage, Washington	45 min
Nov 5, 12:08 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pawnee	52 min
Nov 5, 12:29 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Nowata	16 min
Nov 5, 12:43 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	32 min
Nov 5, 12:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Washington	38 min
Nov 5, 1:17 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek	43 min
Nov 5, 1:30 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig	30 min
Nov 5, 1:35 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Rogers	25 min
Nov 5, 2:05 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okfuskee	25 min
Nov 5, 2:09 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig	21 min
Nov 5, 2:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	25 min
Nov 5, 2:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Okfuskee, Okmulgee	32 min
Nov 5, 2:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Tulsa and 1 more	36 min
Nov 5, 2:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	31 min
Nov 5, 3:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg	54 min
Nov 5, 3:18 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Wagoner	27 min
Nov 5, 3:36 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Mayes	24 min
Nov 5, 3:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Sequoyah	48 min
Nov 5, 3:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Mayes	23 min
Nov 5, 4:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Muskogee, Pittsburg	31 min
Nov 5, 4:18 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Delaware	42 min
Nov 5, 4:21 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair	24 min
Nov 5, 4:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	25 min
Nov 5, 4:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Delaware	35 min
Nov 5, 4:46 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell, Sequoyah	29 min
Nov 5, 4:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg and 2 more	34 min
Nov 5, 5:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha, Sequoyah	47 min
Nov 5, 5:50 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	40 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.