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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 17, 1986Rogers County, Tulsa County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1986, 12:30 AM CDT for Rogers County, Tulsa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 60 min. 6 reports 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: May 17, 1986, 12:30 AM CDT (05:30 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 1986, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Rogers 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

Time	Report	Where
May 17, 1:05 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Tulsa, OK
May 17, 1:05 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 61	Tulsa, OK
May 17, 1:15 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Rogers, OK
May 17, 1:15 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Rogers, OK
May 17, 1:25 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Rogers, OK
May 17, 1:28 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Tulsa, 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 190 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: 2930 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 856 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 5.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 170530
SVRTUL
OKC131-143-170630-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1230 AM CDT SAT MAY 17 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES OF

NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA...ROGERS AND TULSA

AT 1227 AM  A SEVERE THUNDESTORM WAS JUST NORTH OF JENKS,
OKLA.

THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60
MILES AN HOUR AND HAIL 3/4 INCH OR LARGER IN DIAMETER.

IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE WARNING AREA GET TO A REINFORCED SHELTER
AND PREPARE FOR STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY
RAINFALL AND LIGHTNING.  PEOPLE IN MOBILE HOMES SHOULD SEEK
SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR
OTHER GROUND DEPRESSION.

KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 11:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	56 min
May 16, 11:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	68 min
May 17, 12:09 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	31 min
May 17, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	64 min
May 17, 2:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	50 min
May 17, 3:03 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	57 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.