Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 24, 1991, 7:38 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 52 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
- Oct 24, 1991, 7:38 PM CDT (00:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 1991, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherokee County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 8:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Cherokee, 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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2191 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Oct 24, 2:32 PM CDT, 5 hours 6 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
230 PM CDT THU OCT 24 1991
TIME(CDT) COUNTY REPORT
1240 PM PITTSBURG GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT QUINTON...FROM QUINTON
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
1254 PM PITTSBURG 1 INCH HAIL IN EXTREME NORTHEASTERN PITTSBURG
COUNTY.
110 PM HASKELL SHERIFFS UNITS REPORT CYCLONIC CLOUD ROTATION
GETTING CLOSE TO GROUND JUhST SOUTH OF KINTA.
116 PM HASKELL SHERIFFS UNITS REPORT TORNADO TOUCHDOWN WITH
DEBRIS BETWEEN KINTA AND LEQUIRE.Local storm report, Oct 24, 2:41 PM CDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK 240 PM CDT THU OCT 24 1991 TIME(CDT) COUNTY REPORT 110 PM HASKELL GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL REPORTED NEAR KINTA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 44 min |
| Oct 24, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee | 48 min |
| Oct 24, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 68 min |
| Oct 24, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 52 min |
| Oct 24, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg | 41 min |
| Oct 24, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg | 45 min |
| Oct 24, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer | 48 min |
| Oct 24, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer | 44 min |
| Oct 24, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 60 min |
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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.