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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 24, 1988Craig County, Mayes County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1988, 4:17 PM CST for Craig County, Mayes County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 58 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: Mar 24, 1988, 4:17 PM CST (22:17 UTC)
Expired: Mar 24, 1988, 5:15 PM CST
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Craig County, OK, Mayes 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
Mar 24, 4:30 PM CST	Hail 1	Mayes, OK
Mar 24, 5:15 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Craig, 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 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 272 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 627 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 142 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 242218
SVRTUL
OKC035-097-115-242315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
417 PM CST THU MAR 24 1988
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
          ...CRAIG...MAYES...OTTAWA
 
AT 410 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM
NEAR VINITA TO NEAR PRYOR. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD
EAST AT 30 MPH.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...
LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS.

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, Mar 24, 3:30 PM CST, 47 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
327 PM CST THU MAR 24 1988

 TIME/CST COUNTY      EVENT  (CD=CIVIL DEFENSE  OHP=OK HIGHWAY PAT'L)
 3:20  M  TULSA       DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED AT SAND SPRINGS BY
                      CIVIL DEFENSE.

 3:20     CREEK       DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED AT TURNER TURNPIKE
                      GATE.

                                                   Y

Local storm report, Mar 24, 3:49 PM CST, 28 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
347 PM CST THU MAR 24 1988

 TIME/CST COUNTY      EVENT  (CD=CIVIL DEFENSE  OHP=OK HIGHWAY PAT'L)
 3:40  M  TULSA       MARBLE HAIL REPORTED AT CHANNEL 2 KJRH IN SOUTH/
                      EAST TULSA.

Local storm report, Mar 24, 3:54 PM CST, 23 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
352 PM CST THU MAR 24 1988

 TIME/CST COUNTY      EVENT  (CD=CIVIL DEFENSE  OHP=OK HIGHWAY PAT'L)
 3:40 PM  TULSA       QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED AT 31ST AND MINGO IN
                      EAST TULSA ALONG WITH SEVERAL DIME SIZE HAIL
                      REPORTS.

Local storm report, Mar 24, 3:55 PM CST, 22 minutes before

STORM REPORT CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
354 PM CST THU MAR 24 1988

 TIME/CST COUNTY      EVENT  (CD=CIVIL DEFENSE  OHP=OK HIGHWAY PAT'L)
 3:40 PM  TULSA       MARBLE HAIL REPORTED AT CHANNEL 2 KJRH IN SOUTH/
                      EAST TULSA.

Local storm report, Mar 24, 4:10 PM CST, 7 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
408 PM CST THU MAR 24 1988

 TIME/CST COUNTY      EVENT  (CD=CIVIL DEFENSE  OHP=OK HIGHWAY PAT'L)
 4:00 PM  ROGERS      TELEPHONE POLES AND TREES DOWNED BY STRONG WINDS
                      NEAR TALALA AS REPORTED BY COUNTY SHERRIFF.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 24, 3:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Tulsa, Washington	58 min
Mar 24, 3:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata	58 min
Mar 24, 3:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers	63 min
Mar 24, 4:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	59 min
Mar 24, 4:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	63 min
Mar 24, 4:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Ottawa	58 min
Mar 24, 4:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Wagoner	62 min
Mar 24, 4:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware	61 min
Mar 24, 5:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh	60 min
Mar 24, 5:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	61 min
Mar 24, 5:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee	61 min
Mar 24, 5:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	58 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.