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Tornado Warning 75, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Nov 17, 2015, 7:02 AM CST for Adair County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 14 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 17, 2015, 7:02 AM CST (13:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 17, 2015, 7:16 AM CST
- In force
- 14 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County Adair County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 191 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 496 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 532 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 736 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
800
WFUS54 KTSA 171302
TORTSA
OKC001-171330-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0075.151117T1302Z-151117T1330Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
702 AM CST TUE NOV 17 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN ADAIR COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA...
* UNTIL 730 AM CST
* AT 702 AM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF PROCTOR...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 30 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...
WATTS... BALLARD...
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 3613 9455 3607 9455 3594 9474 3602 9480
3605 9480 3616 9461 3616 9457
TIME...MOT...LOC 1302Z 230DEG 28KT 3602 9473
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$1 follow-up statement
382
WWUS54 KTSA 171316
SVSTSA
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
716 AM CST TUE NOV 17 2015
OKC001-171325-
/O.CAN.KTSA.TO.W.0075.000000T0000Z-151117T1330Z/
ADAIR OK-
716 AM CST TUE NOV 17 2015
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN ADAIR COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS AND IS EXITING THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS
BEEN CANCELLED.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST FOR
NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS.
LAT...LON 3613 9455 3607 9455 3594 9474 3602 9480
3605 9480 3616 9461 3616 9457
TIME...MOT...LOC 1314Z 230DEG 28KT 3609 9463
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 9:31 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg | 44 min |
| Nov 16, 9:38 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okmulgee | 52 min |
| Nov 16, 10:05 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Haskell | 40 min |
| Nov 17, 1:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 34 min |
| Nov 17, 2:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee | 53 min |
| Nov 17, 2:30 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner | 45 min |
| Nov 17, 2:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner | 39 min |
| Nov 17, 3:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Creek, Nowata, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers and 2 more | 53 min |
| Nov 17, 3:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Rogers, Tulsa and 1 more | 64 min |
| Nov 17, 3:58 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Craig, Nowata, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington | 62 min |
| Nov 17, 4:15 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okmulgee, Wagoner | 60 min |
| Nov 17, 4:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 40 min |
| Nov 17, 4:48 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | McIntosh, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 57 min |
| Nov 17, 4:49 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa | 56 min |
| Nov 17, 4:50 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Muskogee, Wagoner | 55 min |
| Nov 17, 5:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 67 min |
| Nov 17, 5:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Pushmataha | 61 min |
| Nov 17, 5:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg, Sequoyah | 64 min |
| Nov 17, 5:49 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware, Muskogee | 41 min |
| Nov 17, 6:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Sequoyah | 65 min |
| Nov 17, 6:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha | 61 min |
| Nov 17, 6:45 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Sequoyah | 45 min |
| Nov 17, 7:18 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 57 min |
| Nov 17, 1:25 PM CST | River Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 47 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.