Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1986, 7:30 PM CDT for Craig County, Nowata County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 60 min. 2 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
- Jun 10, 1986, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1986, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Craig County, OK, Nowata 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 | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 7:40 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Craig, OK | |
| Jun 10, 7:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Nowata, 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
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 144 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1288 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1024 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 110030 SVRTUL OKC035-105-110130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 730 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA...CRAIG AND NOWATA AT 725 PM A SEVERE THUNDESTORM WAS JUST NORTH OF NOWATA OKLAHOMA. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST 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.p..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.
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, Jun 10, 7:20 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
710 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 1986
TIME EVENT (CD=CIVIL DEFENSE. OHP=OKLA. HIGHWAY PATROL)
630 PM CDT SCATTERED TREES DOWN IN NORTHWEST PART OF CITY.
REPORT FROM CIVIL DEFENSE. TULSA COUNTY.
638 PM CDT WIND GUST TO 60 MPH HIT TULSA INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT AND N.W.S OFFICE. TULSA COUNTY.
644 PM CDT SCATTERED ROOF DAMAGE IN NORTH TYULSA.
REPORT FROM SPOTTERS AND C.D. TULSA COUNTY.
647 PM CDT LARGE TREE REPORTED ACROSS A MAJOR STREET IN
SOUTH TULSA...LEWIS AVE. FROM C.D.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.