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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 10, 1992Pawnee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1992, 6:41 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 64 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
May 10, 1992, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 1992, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Pawnee County, OK

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 10, 6:55 PM CDTHail 0.88Pawnee, 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 137 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 1992-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 123 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1992-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 197 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
123 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
691 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
197 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
222 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 102341
SVRTUL
OKC117-110045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
641 PM CDT SUN MAY 10 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...PAWNEE COUNTY
 
AT 6 40 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF
YALE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
 
THIS STORM WILL MOVE TOWARD JENNINGS AND HALLETT. THIS STORM WILL
PRODUCE LARGE HAIL.
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

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, May 10, 1:24 PM CDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before
OKZ026>034-040-111200-

EASTERN OKLAHOMA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
130 PM CDT SUN MAY 10 1992

NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA
THROUGH TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST LATE
THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT...BUT THEY ARE NOT EXPECTED
TO BE SEVERE.

A STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM WAS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHERN COLORADO EARLY
THIS AFTERNOON. AHEAD OF THIS STORM...STRONG SOUTH WINDS IN THE LOW
LEVELS HAVE ALLOWED RICH MOISTURE TO MOVE INTO OKLAHOMA AND KANSAS FROM
TEXAS. SEVERAL WEAK DISTURBANCES AHEAD OF THE COLORADO STORM WILL
MOVE ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT AND
AID THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. THE LACK OF A SURFACE
BOUNDARY OVER EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND ONLY MODERATE INSTABILITY WILL KEEP
ANY THUNDERSTORMS BELOW SEVERE LIMITS THROUGH TONIGHT.

STRONGER AND MORE ORGANIZED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED IN WESTERN TEXAS
AND WESTERN OKYLAHOMA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AS STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP NEAR A DRYLINE. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE
NORTHEAST BUT SHOULD WEAKEN BELOW SEVERE LEVELS BY THE TIME
THEY REACH EASTERN OKLAHOMA EARLY MONDAY MORNING.
Special weather statement, May 10, 5:56 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
OKZ026-090000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
556 PM CDT FRI MAY 8 1992

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ENTERING WESTERN OSAGE COUNTY...

AT 550 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ON THE OSAGE-NOBLE
COUNTY LINE SOUTHEAST OF PONCA CITY.  THIS STORM PROBABLY CONTAINS
SMALL HAIL.  IT IS MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL
BE MOVING ACROSS THE EXTREME WESTERN PART OF OSAGE COUNTY.  PEOPLE IN
THIS AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR HAIL AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR
THE MEDIA IN CASE THE STORM INTENSIFIES AND A WARNING IS ISSUED.
Special weather statement, May 10, 6:02 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
OKZ026-090000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ... CORRECTION TO THE DATE...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
556 PM CDT SUN MAY 10 1992

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ENTERING WESTERN OSAGE COUNTY...

AT 550 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ON THE OSAGE-NOBLE
COUNTY LINE SOUTHEAST OF PONCA CITY.  THIS STORM PROBABLY CONTAINS
SMALL HAIL.  IT IS MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL
BE MOVING ACROSS THE EXTREME WESTERN PART OF OSAGE CkOUNTY.  PEOPLE IN
THIS AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR HAIL AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR
THE MEDIA IN CASE THE STORM INTENSIFIES AND A WARNING IS ISSUED.

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.