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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 171, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 27, 1990Okfuskee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1990, 3:43 AM CDT for Okfuskee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 62 min. 1 report 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
May 27, 1990, 3:43 AM CDT (08:43 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1990, 4:45 AM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Okfuskee 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
May 27, 3:55 AM CDTHail 0.75Okfuskee, 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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 101 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1990-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3596 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1990-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 101 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3596 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
867 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
261 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
4.5
Supercell composite
18.2

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The text

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

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, May 26, 11:51 PM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
1150 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 1990

TIME/CDT     COUNTY      EVENT
2245 PM      CREEK       DIME SIZE HAIL AT JUST SOUTH OF BRISTOW
2300 PM      OKMULGEE    DIME SI?ZE HAIL NORTHWEST OF HENRYETTA
Local storm report, May 27, 1:02 AM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
1256 AM CDT SUN MAY 27 1990

TIME/CDT     COUNTY      EVENT
12 30 AM     PITTSBURG   WINDS TO 60 MPH BLEW TREES DOWN 12 MILES EAST
                         OF MLC ON SH31.

12 25 AM     MCINTOSH    WINDS TO 60 MPH IN EUFAULA.

12 35 AM     HASKELL     WINDS TO 60 MPH IN WHITEFIELD.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage45 min
May 26, 10:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Okmulgee44 min
May 27, 12:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh, Pittsburg47 min
May 27, 12:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell47 min
May 27, 12:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore, Sequoyah64 min
May 27, 4:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh, Okmulgee67 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.