Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Tulsa, OK

October 24, 1991Rogers County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 24, 1991, 8:05 AM CDT for Rogers County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 24, 1991, 8:05 AM CDT (13:05 UTC)
Expired: Oct 24, 1991, 8:45 AM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Rogers County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 171 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: 1070 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 774 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.8

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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

Special weather statement, Oct 24, 5:39 AM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 24, 1:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	45 min
Oct 24, 2:13 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Creek	47 min
Oct 24, 2:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa	47 min
Oct 24, 3:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa, Washington	46 min
Oct 24, 7:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa, Wagoner	41 min
Oct 24, 8:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa, Wagoner	53 min
Oct 24, 12:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	40 min
Oct 24, 12:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell	61 min
Oct 24, 1:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Haskell	45 min
Oct 24, 1:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	57 min
Oct 24, 1:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	50 min
Oct 24, 2:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	58 min
Oct 24, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell	50 min
Oct 24, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	49 min
Oct 24, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa	42 min
Oct 24, 4:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa	34 min
Oct 24, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa, Wagoner	50 min
Oct 24, 4:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Rogers	44 min
Oct 24, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	55 min
Oct 24, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Mayes, Rogers	47 min
Oct 24, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	42 min
Oct 24, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	50 min
Oct 24, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	55 min
Oct 24, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh	44 min
Oct 24, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	46 min
Oct 24, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	62 min
Oct 24, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford	60 min
Oct 24, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	56 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1991 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.