Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 308, NWS Tulsa, OK

September 8, 1992Rogers County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 1992, 9:44 PM CDT for Rogers County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 46 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: Sep 8, 1992, 9:44 PM CDT (02:44 UTC)
Expired: Sep 8, 1992, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Rogers County, OK

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 8, 9:50 PM CDT	Hail 1	Rogers, 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

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 896 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 214 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 572 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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.

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 8, 9:17 PM CDT, 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 9:17 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
910 PM CDT TUE SEP 8 1992

INTNS CLUSTER OF TSTMS CONTS OVR PARTS OF NERN OK.  CLUSTER JUST WL
NOT DMNSH AND AM CONCERNED ABT FL FLDG.  THIS WL BE A SMALL SCALE
EVENT SO WL GO WITH A FFA FOR MAYES AND ROGERS COUNTIES IN ZN 29 AND
INCLUDE ALL OF ZN 28 FOR THE REST OF TNGT.  ELSW WL DCRS OR REMOVE
POPS FOR THE REST OF THE NGT.  REST OF FCST WL SEE ONLY MINOR CHGS.

..11..

.OK...FFA TNGT PARTS OF NERN OK (ZN 28 AND NERN 2 COUNTIES IN ZN 29).

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 8, 5:43 PM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute before

OKZ027-028-029-082345-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
543 PM CDT TUE SEP 8 1992

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA...

AT 538PM CDT A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS RAPIDLY
DEVELOPING IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA FROM JUST WEST OF JAY IN ADAIR
COUNTY...TO NEAR TULSA.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN THIS LINE IN WESTERN MAYES
COUNTY...AN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM
FOR MAYES COUNTY.

CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THESE STORMS TO RAPIDLY INTENSIFY AND
PERSONS IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA SHOULD LISTEN CLOSELY FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION FROM THEJ NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 8, 7:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Rogers	26 min
Sep 8, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers	47 min
Sep 8, 7:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Mayes	26 min
Sep 8, 7:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Rogers	32 min
Sep 8, 7:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Rogers	5 hr
Sep 8, 7:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Mayes	48 min
Sep 8, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	45 min
Sep 8, 8:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Mayes	48 min
Sep 8, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers	60 min
Sep 8, 8:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Mayes	5 hr
Sep 8, 9:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Mayes	47 min
Sep 9, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	66 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1992 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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.