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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 24, 1988Latimer County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1988, 6:36 PM CST for Latimer County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 69 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, 6:36 PM CST (00:36 UTC)
Expired: Mar 24, 1988, 7:45 PM CST
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Latimer 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, 7:20 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Latimer, 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 text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 3 hours 6 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, 2 hours 47 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, 2 hours 42 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, 2 hours 41 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, 2 hours 26 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, 6:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	67 min
Mar 24, 6:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell	56 min
Mar 24, 6:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	58 min
Mar 24, 7:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	60 min
Mar 24, 6:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison, Washington	55 min
Mar 24, 6:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford	58 min
Mar 24, 6:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	57 min
Mar 24, 7:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin	55 min
Mar 24, 7:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	60 min
Mar 24, 8:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Polk, Scott	56 min
Mar 24, 8:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin, Johnson, Logan	59 min
Mar 24, 9:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Polk	53 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.