Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 22, 1991, 7:35 AM CST for Latimer County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 40 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
- Mar 22, 1991, 7:35 AM CST (13:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 1991, 8:15 AM CST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Latimer County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 7:45 AM CST | Hail 0.88 | Latimer, 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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 2453 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 112 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -255 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 221333 SVRTUL OKC077-221415- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 735 AM CST FRI MAR 22 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ... IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...LATIMER COUNTY AT 730 AM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF WILBURTON...APPROACHING THE LATIMER COUNTY LINE. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED WIND DAMAGE IN PUSHMATAHA COUNTY...AND WILL LIKELY BE ACCOMPANIED BY LARGE HAIL AND INTENSE LIGHTNING. THE STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE THROUGH THE TOWN OF RED OAK BYH 8 AM. IF YOU ARE IN LATIMER COUNTY...TAKE COVER NOW NEAR THE CENTER OF A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY THERE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 6:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Muskogee | 48 min |
| Mar 21, 7:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 68 min |
| Mar 21, 7:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell | 36 min |
| Mar 21, 7:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 57 min |
| Mar 21, 7:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 61 min |
| Mar 21, 8:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 60 min |
| Mar 21, 11:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 54 min |
| Mar 22, 12:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 55 min |
| Mar 22, 1:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 63 min |
| Mar 22, 1:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 32 min |
| Mar 22, 3:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 52 min |
| Mar 22, 7:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 48 min |
| Mar 22, 8:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 56 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.