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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 28, 1988Creek County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1988, 6:24 PM CST for Creek County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 28, 1988, 6:24 PM CST (00:24 UTC)
Expired
Mar 28, 1988, 7:30 PM CST
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Creek 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

Ok Cty/Will Rgrs, OK (KOKC), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 124 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, Ok Cty/Will Rgrs, OK at 00:00Z on 1988-03-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 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, Ok Cty/Will Rgrs, OK at 00:00Z on 1988-03-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 166 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
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

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 28, 6:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage, Tulsa55 min
Mar 28, 6:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSARogers61 min
Mar 28, 9:06 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkfuskee69 min
Mar 29, 12:50 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee55 min
Mar 29, 1:17 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWashington58 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.