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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 28, 1988Osage County, Tulsa County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1988, 6:05 PM CST for Osage County, Tulsa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 55 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 28, 1988, 6:05 PM CST (00:05 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 1988, 7:00 PM CST
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Osage County, OK, Tulsa 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 28, 6:17 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Tulsa, OK
Mar 28, 6:47 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Tulsa, 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

Ok Cty/Will Rgrs, OK (KOKC), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -328 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 887 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 268 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 290006
SVRTUL
OKC113-143-290100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
605 PM CST MON MAR 28 1988
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
          ...SOUTHERN OSAGE...TULSA
 
AT 600 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10
MILES WEST OF SAND SPRINGS MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
THIS STORM SHOULD TRACK OVER SAND SPRINGS AND THE NORTHERN TULSA
METROPOLITAN AREA.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...
LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERSY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 28, 6:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	66 min
Mar 28, 6:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers	61 min
Mar 28, 9:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	69 min
Mar 29, 12:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1988 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988

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.