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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 8, 1992Pittsburg County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 1992, 12:34 PM CST for Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 41 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 8, 1992, 12:34 PM CST (18:34 UTC)
Expired
Mar 8, 1992, 1:15 PM CST
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Pittsburg County, OK

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 8, 12:40 PM CSTHail 0.88Pittsburg, 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 154 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, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1992-03-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1992-03-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1687 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 081834
SVRTUL
OKC121-081915-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1234 PM CST SUN MAR 8 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  115 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ...
 
IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...PITTSBURG COUNTY
 
AT 1230 PM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTH OF MCALESTER...OR IN THE VICINITY OF
CROWDER. LARGE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
PERSONS ON OR IN THE VICINITY OF LAKE EUFAULA ARE IN THE PATH OF
THIS STORM.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...
LARGME 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, Mar 8, 12:20 PM CST, 14 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
1219 PM CST SUN MAR 08 1992

TIME(CDT)       COUNTY         REPORT

1215 PM         OKFUSKEE       3/4 INCH HAIL AT OKEMAH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 8, 11:11 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg34 min
Mar 8, 12:06 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkfuskee69 min
Mar 8, 12:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkmulgee46 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.