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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Tulsa, OK

February 27, 1987Pittsburg County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 1987, 10:34 PM CST for Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 27, 1987, 10:34 PM CST (04:34 UTC)
Expired
Feb 27, 1987, 11:30 PM CST
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Pittsburg 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 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 176 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 00:00Z on 1987-02-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1987-02-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -78 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAAOO KTUL 280434
SVRTUL
OKC121-280530-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1034 PM CST FRI FEB 27 1987
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES:
 
IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
          ..NORTHWESTERN PITTSBURG

AT 1035 PM CST A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST NORTH OF STUART,OKLA.
LARGE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING, PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
 
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

Special weather statement, Feb 27, 5:14 PM CST, 5 hours 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
512 PM CST FRI  FEB  27 1987

A 510 PM CST THE WEATHER RADAR IN TULSA INDICATED A LINE OF VERY
HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR BRISTOW TO JUST WEST PF HENRYETTA
OKLA.  HAIL FROM PEA SIZE TO DIME SIZE ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN
AND GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE
THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 40 TO 45 MPH ACROSS
CREEK ,OKMULGEE AND SOUTH TULSA COUNTIES DURING THE N]EXT HOUR.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 27, 10:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh, Okmulgee61 min
Feb 28, 12:03 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh, Pittsburg57 min
Feb 28, 12:29 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1987Every 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.