Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 206, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1989, 8:16 PM CDT for Craig County, Ottawa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 59 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
- Aug 19, 1989, 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1989, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Craig County, OK, Ottawa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 8:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Craig, OK | |
| Aug 19, 9:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Ottawa, 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
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 108 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 723 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 988 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 381 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 68 min |
| Aug 19, 11:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Nowata | 3 hr |
| Aug 20, 2:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 65 min |
| Aug 20, 3:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 2 hr |
| Aug 20, 5:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 117 min |
| Aug 20, 7:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 2 hr |
| Aug 20, 12:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 3 hr |
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.