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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 22, 1991Wagoner County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1991, 5:19 PM CDT for Wagoner County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 56 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
Jun 22, 1991, 5:19 PM CDT (22:19 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1991, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Wagoner County, OK

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 22, 6:00 PM CDTHail 0.75Wagoner, 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 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 189 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 12:00Z on 1991-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2043 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 12:00Z on 1991-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -85 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2043 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
969 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-37 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.

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, Jun 22, 12:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
1253 PM CDT SAT JUN 22 1991

...REPORT FROM EARLY THIS MORNING...

TIME(CDT)     COUNTY        REPORT

300 AM        PAWNEE        TREES AND POWER LINES DOSWN IN PAWNEE

940 AM        CREEK         60 MPH WINDS DOWNED SEVERAL LARGE TREES AND
                            MANY TREE LIMBS NEAR BRISTOW
Local storm report, Jun 22, 12:54 PM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
STORM REPORT CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
1253 PM CDT SAT JUN 22 1991

...REPORT FROM EARLY THIS MORNING...

TIME(CDT)     COUNTY        REPORT

300 AM        PAWNEE        TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN IN PAWNEE
Local storm report, Jun 22, 12:58 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before
STORM REPORT CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
1257 PM CDT SAT JUN 22 1991

...REPORT FROM EARLY THIS MORNING...

TIME(CDT)     COUNTY        REPORT

300 AM        PAWNEE        TREES AND %POWER LINES DOWN IN PAWNEE

THERE WAS NO SEVERE WEATHER IN CREEK COUNTY THIS MORNING. THE REPORT
JUST SENT OF WIND DAMAGE NEAR BRISTOW WAS AN OLD REPORT FROM JUNE 5TH.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 2:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage, Pawnee63 min
Jun 22, 1:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWagoner34 min
Jun 22, 1:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee43 min
Jun 22, 2:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee, Wagoner68 min
Jun 22, 3:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkfuskee64 min
Jun 22, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee, Wagoner60 min
Jun 22, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSASequoyah64 min
Jun 22, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee, Okmulgee65 min
Jun 22, 5:01 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAMuskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner3 hr
Jun 22, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg60 min
Jun 22, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAJohnson64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1991Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1991

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.