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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 19, 20254 counties in Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2025, 8:11 PM CDT for 4 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 49 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 19, 2025, 8:11 PM CDT (01:11 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2025, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

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

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 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.

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 19, 12:03 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr
May 19, 6:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 227 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: 2343 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1197 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 8.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

415 
WUUS54 KTSA 200111
SVRTSA
OKC023-077-079-127-200200-
/O.NEW.KTSA.SV.W.0252.250520T0111Z-250520T0200Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Tulsa OK
811 PM CDT Mon May 19 2025

The National Weather Service in Tulsa has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Pushmataha County in southeastern Oklahoma...
  Southeastern Latimer County in southeastern Oklahoma...
  Northeastern Choctaw County in southeastern Oklahoma...
  Southern Le Flore County in southeastern Oklahoma...

* Until 900 PM CDT.

* At 811 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
  extending from 6 miles north of Talimena State Park to 2 miles
  northwest of Rattan, moving east at 20 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Locations in or near the path include...
  Talimena State Park...            Snow...
  Rattan...                         Sobol...
  Tuskahoma...                      Kiamichi...
  Whitesboro...                     Talihina...
  Clayton Lake State Park...        Corinne...
  Bengal...                         Swink...
  Clayton...                        Apple...
  Dela...                           Nashoba...
  Albion...                         Finley...
  Hodgen...                         Muse...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 200 AM CDT for southeastern
Oklahoma. A Tornado Watch also remains in effect until 200 AM CDT for
southeastern Oklahoma.

&&

LAT...LON 3420 9563 3490 9516 3488 9451 3451 9477
      3450 9505 3425 9505 3424 9515 3395 9516
TIME...MOT...LOC 0111Z 287DEG 19KT 3487 9496 3421 9544 

HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...<.75 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 7:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair	33 min
May 19, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	LeFlore	31 min
May 19, 7:17 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 1 more	3 hr
May 19, 7:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	33 min
May 19, 7:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg	4 hr
May 19, 7:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	LeFlore	26 min
May 19, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	44 min
May 19, 8:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	LeFlore	3 hr
May 19, 8:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	40 min
May 19, 8:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	3 hr
May 19, 8:22 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Choctaw, Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha	3 hr
May 19, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	48 min
May 19, 8:29 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware	17 hr
May 19, 8:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Sequoyah	3 hr
May 19, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	42 min
May 19, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	28 min
May 19, 9:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	26 min
May 19, 9:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	LeFlore	3 hr
May 19, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	47 min
May 19, 9:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw	27 min
May 19, 9:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw	36 min
May 19, 10:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Ottawa	30 min
May 19, 11:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw	31 min
May 19, 11:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg	20 hr
May 19, 11:38 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Sequoyah	20 hr
May 19, 11:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	42 min
May 20, 12:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh, Pittsburg	47 min
May 20, 12:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	32 min
May 20, 12:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw	41 min
May 20, 12:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer, Pushmataha	35 min
May 20, 12:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell	47 min
May 20, 1:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Pushmataha	43 min
May 20, 1:24 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Latimer, McIntosh, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	104 min
May 20, 1:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw	30 min
May 20, 1:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	28 min
May 20, 2:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	20 min
May 20, 2:08 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware	18 hr
May 20, 3:08 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Latimer, McIntosh, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	8 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.