Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1988, 5:44 PM CST for Cherokee County, Muskogee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 61 min. 1 report 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, 5:44 PM CST (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 1988, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cherokee County, OK, Muskogee 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, 6:00 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Cherokee, 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KTUL 242346
SVRTUL
OKC021-101-121-250045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
544 PM CST THU MAR 24 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
...SOUTHERN CHEROKEE...SOUTHEASTERN MUSKOGEE
IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
...PITTSBURG
AT 542 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NESTUART TO NEAR CAMP GRUBER OKLAHOMA. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS
MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 30 MPH.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...
SEVcERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.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 | Craig, Mayes | 58 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, 5:47 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.