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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Tulsa, OK

August 1, 1986Creek County, Tulsa County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 1986, 10:57 PM CDT for Creek County, Tulsa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Aug 1, 1986, 10:57 PM CDT (03:57 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 1986, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

Counties Creek County, OK, Tulsa County, OK

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 1, 11:30 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 0Creek, OK

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Ok Cty/Will Rgrs, OK (KOKC), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 147 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, Ok Cty/Will Rgrs, OK at 00:00Z on 1986-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2208 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, Ok Cty/Will Rgrs, OK at 00:00Z on 1986-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2208 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2562 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAAOO KTUL 020357
SVRTUL
OKC037-143-020500-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1057 PM CDT FRI AUG  1 1986
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES:
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
          ..CREEK..TULSA

AT 1058 PM CDT AN AREA OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS IN AN AREA BETWEEN
HOMINY AND OILTON, OKLAHOMA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 40 MPH.
WIND GUST TO 60 MPH WERE REPORTED JUST SOUTH OF CLEVELAND, OKLAHOMA
AT 1055PM
 
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WI!ND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH,
LARGE HAIL, DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS.
 
KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.

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.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 1, 8:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
800  PM CDT FRI AUG 1 1986

TIME/CDT COUNTY      EVENT  (CD=CIVIL DEFENSE  OHP=OK HIGHWAY PAT'L)
610  PM  TULSA       3 INCHE HAIL REPORTED BY SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTER
                     ON EAST ADMIRAL AVE  IN SOUTHEAST TULSA, OK

615  PM  WAGONER     BASE BALL SIZE REPORTED JUST EAST NORTHEAST
                     OF BROKEN ARROW, OKLA. CAR WINDOWS BROKEN.
                     REPORTED BY TULSA FSS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 1, 10:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage, Pawnee54 min
Aug 2, 1:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore, Sequoyah58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.