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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 28, 1988Rogers County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1988, 6:59 PM CST for Rogers County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 28, 1988, 6:59 PM CST (00:59 UTC)
Expired
Mar 28, 1988, 8:00 PM CST
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

County 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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 171 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 00:00Z on 1988-03-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 13 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 00:00Z on 1988-03-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 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
13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1294 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
204 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 290100
SVRTUL
OKC131-290200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
659 PM CST MON MAR 28 1988
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
          ...ROGERS
 
AT 655 PM CST TULSA WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST
TO THE NORTH OF TULSA MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL
PASS JUST NORTH OF CLAREMORE.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...
LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS.

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 28, 6:40 PM CST, 19 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
640 PM CST MON MAR 28 1988

 TIME/CST COUNTY      EVENT  (CD=CIVIL DEFENSE  OHP=OK HIGHWAY PAT'L)
 545PM    CREEK       60 TO 65 MPH WIND AT OILTON OK REPORTED BY
                      OILTON PD

 617 PM   TULSA       3/4 INCHE HAIL 3 MILES WEST OF KEYSTONE DAM
                      REPORTEB BY TRO

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, 6:24 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek66 min
Mar 28, 9:06 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkfuskee69 min
Mar 29, 12:50 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee55 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.