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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 5, 1988Okfuskee County, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 5, 1988, 2:57 PM CDT for Okfuskee County, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 63 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
Apr 5, 1988, 2:57 PM CDT (19:57 UTC)
Expired
Apr 5, 1988, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

Counties Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 5, 3:00 PM CDTHail 1Okfuskee, OK
Apr 5, 3:15 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 0Okmulgee, 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 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 133 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 12:00Z on 1988-04-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 222 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 12:00Z on 1988-04-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 144 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
222 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-443 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1743 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
144 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
Apr 5, 3:25 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAMuskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner65 min
Apr 5, 3:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh64 min
Apr 5, 4:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee, Delaware69 min
Apr 5, 4:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg62 min
Apr 5, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSASequoyah61 min
Apr 5, 4:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, Muskogee58 min
Apr 5, 4:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair51 min
Apr 5, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore, Sequoyah55 min
Apr 5, 4:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSABenton58 min
Apr 5, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWashington60 min
Apr 5, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACrawford55 min
Apr 5, 5:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMadison56 min
Apr 5, 5:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSASebastian56 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.