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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Tulsa, OK

November 15, 1988Nowata County, Rogers County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 15, 1988, 1:27 PM CST for Nowata County, Rogers County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 15, 1988, 1:27 PM CST (19:27 UTC)
Expired
Nov 15, 1988, 2:30 PM CST
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

Counties Nowata County, OK, Rogers 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 165 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1988-11-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 567 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1988-11-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 289 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
567 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
774 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
289 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
250 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
2.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 15, 11:39 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage, Pawnee66 min
Nov 15, 12:12 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek63 min
Nov 15, 12:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkfuskee65 min
Nov 15, 12:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage, Pawnee65 min
Nov 15, 1:07 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Tulsa68 min
Nov 15, 1:07 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWashington68 min
Nov 15, 1:27 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkmulgee63 min
Nov 15, 2:12 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh63 min
Nov 15, 2:39 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg66 min
Nov 15, 2:49 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee56 min
Nov 15, 3:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore, Sequoyah64 min
Nov 15, 4:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore, Sequoyah61 min
Nov 15, 3:19 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSABenton, Washington56 min
Nov 15, 4:27 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSABenton63 min
Nov 15, 5:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPolk58 min
Nov 15, 5:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAFranklin, Logan67 min
Nov 15, 5:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAScott67 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.