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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 14, 1990Osage County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1990, 10:20 PM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 55 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 14, 1990, 10:20 PM CDT (03:20 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1990, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Osage 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
May 14, 10:46 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 56	Osage, 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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 181 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2671 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1108 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 185 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 150319
SVRTUL
OKC105-113-150415-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1020 PM CDT MON MAY 14 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...NORTHERN NOWATA COUNTY...NORTHERN OSAGE COUNTY
 
AT 1018 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR ELLIOT, OK
AND ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF PAWHUSKA, OK.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
 
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Washington	58 min
May 14, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	60 min
May 14, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata	55 min
May 14, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig	60 min
May 15, 12:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig	46 min
May 15, 12:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Ottawa	40 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.