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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS Tulsa, OK

September 26, 1986Okmulgee County, Tulsa County, Wagoner County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 26, 1986, 5:36 PM CDT for Okmulgee County, Tulsa County, Wagoner County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 26, 1986, 5:36 PM CDT (22:36 UTC)
Expired
Sep 26, 1986, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

Counties Okmulgee County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK

The radar

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

The nearest sounding before it

Ok Cty/Will Rgrs, OK (KOKC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 171 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 12:00Z on 1986-09-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2478 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 12:00Z on 1986-09-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 213 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2478 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
665 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
213 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
8.3

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 26, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek60 min
Sep 26, 4:32 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAOkmulgee58 min
Sep 26, 5:03 PM CDTTornado WarningTSATulsa57 min
Sep 26, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMayes, Wagoner59 min
Sep 26, 6:50 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAMayes, Wagoner55 min

Nearby

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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.