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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 335, NWS Tulsa, OK

September 20, 1992Rogers County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 20, 1992, 9:45 PM CDT for Rogers County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 20, 1992, 9:45 PM CDT (02:45 UTC)
Expired
Sep 20, 1992, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Rogers County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1992-09-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2527 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1992-09-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 188 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2527 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
709 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
188 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
268 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.1
Supercell composite
12.0

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The text

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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 20, 9:18 PM CDT, 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 20, 9:18 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
910 PM CDT SUN SEP 20 1992

STRONG TO SEVERE STRMS DEVELOPED THIS EVENING AS UNSTABLE AIR INTERACTS
WITH MOISTURE CONVEGENC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 20, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSARogers52 min
Sep 20, 9:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig48 min
Sep 20, 10:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSADelaware57 min
Sep 21, 12:12 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSALeFlore6 hr
Sep 21, 6:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSALeFlore3 hr
Sep 21, 2:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell46 min
Sep 21, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore65 min
Sep 21, 5:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSALeFlore3 hr
Sep 21, 5:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAFranklin, Logan59 min
Sep 21, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAJohnson59 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.