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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 26, 20164 counties in Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 2016, 11:27 PM CDT for 4 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 48 min. 4 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: Apr 26, 2016, 11:27 PM CDT (04:27 UTC)
Expired: Apr 27, 2016, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Choctaw County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Apr 26, 11:30 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Rattan, OK	TREES UPROOTED IN RATTAN. POWER POLES SNAPPED ON CLOUDY ROAD IN BETWEEN RATTAN AND CLOUDY. PART OF THE ROOF OF A HOUSE TORN OFF, HAY BARN FLIPPED, TREE DAMAGE 2 WSW RATTAN. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR.
Apr 26, 11:31 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	5 Se Rattan, OK	LARGE TREE BLOWN DOWN. TIME ESTIMATED VIA RADAR.
Apr 26, 11:33 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Rattan, OK	SEVERAL HOMES WITH ROOF DAMAGE. LARGE TREES DOWN.
Apr 27, 12:05 AM CDT	TORNADO	10 Se Nashoba, OK	A TORNADO DESTROYED A CHICKEN HOUSE...DESTROYED AN OUTBUILDING...AND SNAPPED OR UPROOTED TREES. IT WAS RATED EF-1 BASED ON THIS DAMAGE.

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
Apr 26, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 230 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: 2869 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1035 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.2
Supercell composite: 13.0

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The text

As transmitted.

294 
WUUS54 KTSA 270427
SVRTSA
OKC023-077-079-127-270515-
/O.NEW.KTSA.SV.W.0073.160427T0427Z-160427T0515Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1127 PM CDT TUE APR 26 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA...
  SOUTHERN LE FLORE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA...
  SOUTH CENTRAL LATIMER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA...
  PUSHMATAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA...

* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT

* AT 1126 PM CDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
  EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES NORTH OF STANLEY TO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  PARIS...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

  HAZARD...70 MPH WIND GUSTS. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...EXPECT CONSIDERABLE TREE DAMAGE. DAMAGE IS LIKELY TO 
           MOBILE HOMES...ROOFS...AND OUTBUILDINGS. 

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE...
  HUGO...                           CLAYTON...
  FORT TOWSON...                    SAWYER...
  RATTAN...                         ALBION...
  HUGO LAKE STATE PARK...           OCTAVIA...
  MESSER...                         CLOUDY...
  TUSKAHOMA...                      BIG CEDAR...
  STANLEY...                        MUSE...
  NASHOBA...                        CLAYTON LAKE STATE PARK...
  SNOW...                           KIAMICHI...
  WHITESBORO...                     RAYMOND GARY STATE PARK...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 3388 9553 3460 9554 3460 9551 3467 9551
      3477 9445 3451 9447 3450 9505 3425 9505
      3424 9515 3394 9516 3396 9523 3389 9526
      3390 9526 3391 9527 3387 9529
TIME...MOT...LOC 0426Z 269DEG 49KT 3461 9547 3370 9547 

HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...70MPH
 
$$

1 follow-up statement

838 
WWUS54 KTSA 270502
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1202 AM CDT WED APR 27 2016

OKC023-077-270511-
/O.CAN.KTSA.SV.W.0073.000000T0000Z-160427T0515Z/
CHOCTAW OK-LATIMER OK-
1202 AM CDT WED APR 27 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN CHOCTAW AND SOUTH
CENTRAL LATIMER COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

THE STORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA.

LAT...LON 3468 9529 3468 9506 3471 9506 3473 9485
      3451 9478 3451 9504 3425 9505 3424 9515
TIME...MOT...LOC 0501Z 218DEG 70KT 3470 9523 3389 9498 

$$

OKC079-127-270515-
/O.CON.KTSA.SV.W.0073.000000T0000Z-160427T0515Z/
LE FLORE OK-PUSHMATAHA OK-
1202 AM CDT WED APR 27 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1215 AM CDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN LE FLORE AND EASTERN PUSHMATAHA COUNTIES...

AT 1201 AM CDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES EAST OF YANUSH TO 9 MILES WEST OF IDABEL...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 80 MPH.

HAZARD...70 MPH WIND GUSTS. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

IMPACT...EXPECT CONSIDERABLE TREE DAMAGE. DAMAGE IS LIKELY TO MOBILE 
         HOMES...ROOFS...AND OUTBUILDINGS. 

LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE...
ALBION...                         WHITESBORO...
NASHOBA...                        KIAMICHI...
HONOBIA...                        

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 3468 9529 3468 9506 3471 9506 3473 9485
      3451 9478 3451 9504 3425 9505 3424 9515
TIME...MOT...LOC 0501Z 218DEG 70KT 3470 9523 3389 9498 

HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...70MPH
 
$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 8:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pawnee	51 min
Apr 26, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	61 min
Apr 26, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa	59 min
Apr 26, 9:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage	23 min
Apr 26, 10:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa	30 min
Apr 26, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Washington	47 min
Apr 26, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Osage, Rogers, Tulsa and 1 more	40 min
Apr 26, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg	39 min
Apr 26, 10:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner	34 min
Apr 26, 10:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	39 min
Apr 26, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee and 3 more	49 min
Apr 26, 10:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Craig, Mayes, Nowata, Rogers, Wagoner	33 min
Apr 26, 11:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner	44 min
Apr 26, 11:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Craig	32 min
Apr 26, 11:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Sequoyah	31 min
Apr 26, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Ottawa, Rogers	51 min
Apr 26, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, McIntosh, Mayes, Muskogee, Rogers and 2 more	46 min
Apr 26, 11:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes	25 min
Apr 26, 11:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Muskogee, Pushmataha, Sequoyah	32 min
Apr 26, 11:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Sequoyah	31 min
Apr 27, 12:01 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Delaware	14 min
Apr 27, 12:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware	54 min
Apr 27, 12:13 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair	32 min
Apr 27, 12:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha and 1 more	59 min
Apr 27, 12:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware, Ottawa	17 min
Apr 27, 8:24 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Ottawa	5 days

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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.