Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Tulsa, OK
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 10:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Okmulgee | 61 min |
| Feb 28, 12:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Pittsburg | 57 min |
| Feb 28, 12:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.