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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 28, 2025Okfuskee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2025, 11:53 PM CDT for Okfuskee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 28, 2025, 11:53 PM CDT (04:53 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 2025, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Okfuskee County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:55 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 nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 2241 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -113 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 696 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 220 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 236 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.3
Supercell composite: 6.4

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 28, 9:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 9:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 28, 5:01 PM CDT, 6 hours 52 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 28, 6:09 PM CDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 29, 12:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Okfuskee, Okmulgee	52 min
Apr 29, 1:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee	45 min
Apr 29, 1:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee, Sequoyah	26 min
Apr 29, 5:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	51 min
Apr 29, 5:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	43 min
Apr 29, 5:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	38 min
Apr 29, 6:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee, Washington	52 min
Apr 29, 6:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek	30 min
Apr 29, 6:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	49 min
Apr 29, 6:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Nowata, Washington	28 min
Apr 29, 6:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington	51 min
Apr 29, 6:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington	28 min
Apr 29, 6:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	36 min
Apr 29, 6:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	28 min
Apr 29, 6:56 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Nowata, Osage, Pawnee, Washington	3 hr
Apr 29, 7:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Mayes, Rogers, Tulsa	50 min
Apr 29, 7:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Ottawa, Rogers	44 min
Apr 29, 7:18 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Craig, Mayes, Nowata, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers and 2 more	3 hr
Apr 29, 7:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware, Mayes, Rogers	37 min
Apr 29, 7:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa	35 min
Apr 29, 8:05 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Delaware	7 min
Apr 29, 8:06 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Delaware	5 min
Apr 29, 8:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	38 min
Apr 29, 8:41 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware	64 hr
Apr 29, 8:41 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	TSA	Cherokee	12 hr
Apr 29, 9:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sequoyah	37 min
Apr 29, 11:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sequoyah	28 min
Apr 29, 12:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair	32 min
Apr 29, 2:26 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	LeFlore	49 hr
Apr 29, 2:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okmulgee	30 min
Apr 29, 3:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okfuskee	33 min
Apr 29, 3:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Wagoner	2 hr
Apr 29, 5:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh	34 min
Apr 29, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh	35 min
Apr 29, 5:50 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee	115 min
Apr 29, 8:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Carroll	34 min
Apr 29, 9:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Carroll, Madison	31 min
Apr 29, 9:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Crawford, Franklin	36 min
Apr 29, 12:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Crawford, Washington	30 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.