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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 498, NWS Tulsa, OK

October 18, 2025Creek County, Tulsa County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 18, 2025, 6:26 PM CDT for Creek County, Tulsa County, 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 18, 2025, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
Expired
Oct 18, 2025, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.5 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Creek County, OK, Tulsa County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 233 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2025-10-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1043 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2025-10-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 241 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1043 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1203 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
241 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
266 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 18, 5:34 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACraig26 min
Oct 18, 6:03 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACraig27 min
Oct 18, 9:02 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAOsage28 min
Oct 18, 10:50 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAPittsburg25 min
Oct 18, 11:20 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSALatimer, Pittsburg40 min
Oct 18, 11:41 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAAdair34 min
Oct 18, 11:55 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSASequoyah35 min
Oct 18, 12:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSASequoyah26 min
Oct 18, 12:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAHaskell22 min
Oct 18, 12:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAAdair, Sequoyah36 min
Oct 18, 12:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAOttawa29 min
Oct 18, 1:14 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTSAAdair, Sequoyah3 hr
Oct 18, 1:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAAdair43 min
Oct 18, 5:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSATulsa39 min
Oct 18, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa43 min
Oct 18, 6:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSARogers34 min
Oct 18, 6:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSATulsa31 min
Oct 18, 6:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner39 min
Oct 18, 11:26 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACarroll34 min
Oct 18, 12:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSABenton36 min
Oct 18, 12:10 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSABenton35 min
Oct 18, 12:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAWashington30 min
Oct 18, 12:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAWashington38 min
Oct 18, 12:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACrawford, Sebastian47 min
Oct 18, 1:07 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTSABenton, Washington3 hr
Oct 18, 1:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACarroll, Madison30 min
Oct 18, 1:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACarroll, Madison31 min
Oct 18, 1:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAFranklin34 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.