Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1992, 3:40 PM CDT for Haskell County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 1992, 3:40 PM CDT (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1992, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Haskell County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 1442 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 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 162043 SVRTUL OKC061-162115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 340 PM CDT THU APR 16 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ... IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...EASTERN HASKELL COUNTY AT 338 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR KEOTA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. 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
Special weather statement, Apr 16, 1:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
OKZ026>034-040-171200- EASTERN OKLAHOMA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 130 PM CDT THU APR 16 1992 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA THROUGH TONIGHT. THE THREAT AREA COVERS ALL OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM THE OKLAHOMA BORDER EAST OF MIAMI TO NOWATA TO ENID. THE GREATEST THREAT FROM SEVERE WEATHER IS LARGE HAIL FOR LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO A POSSIBILITY. A WEAK...SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT HAS MOVED INTO NORTHERN OKLAHOMA AND WILL HELP DEVELOP THE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS. MORNING PRECIPITATION HAS TEMPORARILY STABILIZED THE AIR OVER MOST OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. HOWEVER...SUNSHINE THIS AFTERNOON WILL AGAIN RESULT IN UNSTABLE CONDITIONS TO HELP INITIATE SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ...A FEW POSSIBLY SEVERE. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING THROUGH OKLAHOMA TODAY WILL WEAKEN AND MOVE INTO ARKANSAS EARLY THIS EVENING. THAT COMBINED WITH COOLER EVENING TEMPERATURES SHOULD ALLOW THUNDERSTORMS TO WEAKEN AND BECOME MORE SCATTERED AFTER SUNSET.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer | 60 min |
| Apr 16, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 43 min |
| Apr 16, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 69 min |
| Apr 16, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 42 min |
| Apr 16, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 65 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1992Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.