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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 18, 1992Creek County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1992, 3:58 PM CDT for Creek County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 47 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 18, 1992, 3:58 PM CDT (20:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 1992, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Creek County, OK

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 18, 4:10 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Creek, 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

Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 231 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: 890 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -205 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1295 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 182100
SVRTUL
OKC037-182145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
358 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...CREEK COUNTY
 
AT 355 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN CREEK COUNTY...5 MILES NORTH OF OILTON.
LARGE HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS ARE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.  THE COMMUNITIES OF OILTON...SILVER CITY AND OLIVE ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...
LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS.

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 18, 3:23 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
322 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1992

TIME(CDT)    COUNTY         REPORT

317 PM       PAWNEE         GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL IN THE CITY OF
                            PAWNEE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 2:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	42 min
Jun 18, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	60 min
Jun 18, 3:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pawnee	32 min
Jun 18, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Wagoner	51 min
Jun 18, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers	43 min
Jun 18, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	43 min
Jun 18, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Wagoner	47 min
Jun 18, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee, Okmulgee	48 min
Jun 18, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	44 min
Jun 18, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee	46 min
Jun 18, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee	50 min
Jun 18, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	50 min
Jun 18, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	46 min
Jun 18, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh	41 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.