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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 14, 1986Osage County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1986, 1:57 PM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 1986, 1:57 PM CDT (18:57 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1986, 2:45 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Osage 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 174 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 1986-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 930 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 1986-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
930 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-101 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1228 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
121 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 
TTAA00 KOKC 141857
SVROKC
OKC113-141945-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
157 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHERN
OKLAHOMA EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CDT..
WESTERN OSAGE.

AT 157 PM..RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 8 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF PONCA CITY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 2:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage57 min
Jun 14, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek55 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.