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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 9, 2016Choctaw County, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 9, 2016, 7:43 PM CDT for Choctaw County, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 13 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: May 9, 2016, 7:43 PM CDT (00:43 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2016, 7:56 PM CDT
In force: 13 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.0 in

Counties Choctaw County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:46 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.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 9, 2:36 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 231 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: 1192 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1065 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 189 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 263 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 10.9

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The text

As transmitted.

171 
WFUS54 KTSA 100043
TORTSA
OKC023-127-100115-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0034.160510T0043Z-160510T0115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
743 PM CDT MON MAY 9 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA...
  SOUTHEASTERN PUSHMATAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA...

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT
    
* AT 743 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
  WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OLETA...MOVING EAST AT 25 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...
  CORINNE...                        SOBOL...

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 3407 9528 3420 9531 3435 9505 3424 9505
      3424 9515 3407 9516
TIME...MOT...LOC 0043Z 253DEG 22KT 3413 9525 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.00IN

$$

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1 follow-up statement

962 
WWUS54 KTSA 100056
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
756 PM CDT MON MAY 9 2016

OKC023-127-100106-
/O.CAN.KTSA.TO.W.0034.000000T0000Z-160510T0115Z/
CHOCTAW OK-PUSHMATAHA OK-
756 PM CDT MON MAY 9 2016

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN CHOCTAW AND SOUTHEASTERN
PUSHMATAHA COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND HAVE EXITED THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS
BEEN CANCELLED.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN
OKLAHOMA.

LAT...LON 3407 9528 3420 9531 3435 9505 3424 9505
      3424 9515 3407 9516
TIME...MOT...LOC 0054Z 253DEG 22KT 3415 9516 

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 7:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer	44 min
May 9, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	49 min
May 9, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	9 min
May 9, 7:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	35 min
May 9, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	32 min
May 9, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	36 min
May 9, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	35 min
May 9, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Washington	34 min
May 9, 9:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	40 min
May 9, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Osage, Washington	35 min
May 9, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Nowata, Rogers	39 min
May 9, 10:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig	31 min
May 9, 11:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Ottawa	52 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.