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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 30, 2016Osage County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2016, 4:17 PM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 28 min. 1 report 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 30, 2016, 4:17 PM CDT (21:17 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2016, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.75 in

County Osage County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 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 30, 4:50 PM CDT	HAIL 1.5	4 N Pawhuska, OK	SIZE ESTIMATED FROM A PHOTO SHARED WITH US VIA FACEBOOK. APPEARED TO BE JUST SMALLER THAN A GOLF BALL. TIME ESTIMATED VIA RADAR.

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 30, 1:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 571 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -194 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 328 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 351 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

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The text

As transmitted.

306 
WFUS54 KTSA 302117
TORTSA
OKC113-302145-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0005.160330T2117Z-160330T2145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
417 PM CDT WED MAR 30 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA...

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT
    
* AT 416 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
  WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PEARSONIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30
  MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND GOLF BALL 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...
  PAWHUSKA...                       OSAGE HILLS STATE PARK...
  PEARSONIA...                      OKESA...
  BIGHEART...                       

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 3661 9659 3672 9667 3698 9631 3671 9612
TIME...MOT...LOC 2116Z 233DEG 27KT 3669 9653 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.75IN

$$

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1 follow-up statement

669 
WWUS54 KTSA 302128
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
428 PM CDT WED MAR 30 2016

OKC113-302145-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-160330T2145Z/
OSAGE OK-
428 PM CDT WED MAR 30 2016

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 PM CDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN OSAGE COUNTY...
    
AT 427 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF PEARSONIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

HAZARD...TORNADO AND GOLF BALL 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...
PAWHUSKA...                       OSAGE HILLS STATE PARK...
PEARSONIA...                      OKESA...
BIGHEART...                       

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 3665 9652 3676 9658 3698 9631 3671 9612
TIME...MOT...LOC 2127Z 237DEG 25KT 3672 9644 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.75IN

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 10:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	46 min
Mar 30, 11:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek	26 min
Mar 30, 11:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee	36 min
Mar 30, 11:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	27 min
Mar 30, 12:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	38 min
Mar 30, 1:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okfuskee, Tulsa	48 min
Mar 30, 1:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okfuskee, Okmulgee	42 min
Mar 30, 2:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	41 min
Mar 30, 2:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okmulgee, Wagoner	41 min
Mar 30, 3:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Kay	45 min
Mar 30, 3:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Mayes, Wagoner	39 min
Mar 30, 3:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	49 min
Mar 30, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	37 min
Mar 30, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Washington	44 min
Mar 30, 5:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	54 min
Mar 30, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	49 min
Mar 30, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Washington	29 min
Mar 30, 5:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pawnee	51 min
Mar 30, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	45 min
Mar 30, 6:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	27 min
Mar 30, 6:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	38 min
Mar 30, 6:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage, Washington	33 min
Mar 30, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	29 min
Mar 30, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa, Washington	55 min
Mar 30, 6:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa	44 min
Mar 30, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Rogers, Washington	51 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.