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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 5, 1987Rogers County, Wagoner County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1987, 3:32 PM CDT for Rogers County, Wagoner County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 5, 1987, 3:32 PM CDT (20:32 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 1987, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Rogers 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

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 122 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -143 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 797 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

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, May 5, 1:24 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
124 PM CDT TUE MAY 05 1987

 TIME/CST COUNTY      EVENT  (CD=CIVIL DEFENSE  OHP=OK HIGHWAY PAT'L)
 120  PM  TULSA       SMALL HAIL REPORTED ABOUT 2 MILES WEST OF
                      OWASSO OKLAHOMA.  REPORT THRU OWASSO POLICE.

Local storm report, May 5, 1:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
148 PM CDT TUE MAY 05 1987

 TIME/CST COUNTY      EVENT  (CD=CIVIL DEFENSE  OHP=OK HIGHWAY PAT'L)
                      SMALL HAIL WAS REPORTED ABOUT 1 1/2 MI=LES
                      NORTH OF OWASSO AT 96TH STREET AND HIGHWAY 169.
                      REPORT FROM THE OWASSO PD.

Local storm report, May 5, 1:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

STORM REPORT CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
150 PM CDT TUE MAY 05 1987

 TIME/CDT COUNTY      EVENT  (CD=CIVIL DEFENSE  OHP=OK HIGHWAY PAT'L)
 132 PM   TULSA       SMALL HAIL WAS REPORTED AABOUT 1 1/2 MILES
                      NORTH OF OWASSO AT 96TH STREET AND HIGHWAY 169.
                      REPORT FROM THE OWASSO PD.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	55 min
May 5, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware	61 min
May 5, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	58 min
May 5, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1987 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987

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.