Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 1992, 8:00 PM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports 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 11, 1992, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 1992, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Osage County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 8:04 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Osage, OK | |
| May 11, 8:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Osage, 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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 2262 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 120101 SVRTUL OKC113-120145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 800 PM CDT MON MAY 11 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...SOUTHEASTERN OSAGE COUNTY AT 800 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER THE TOWN OF HOMINY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. INTENSE LIGHTNING AND SOME HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, May 11, 2:24 PM CDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before
STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
223 PM CDT MON MAY 11 1992
TIME(CDT) COUNTY REPORT
230-250 AM TULSA AND A WEAK (F0) TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN NEAR
WAGONER 113TH ST SOUTH MIDWAY BETWEEN LYNN LANE
AND COUNTY LINE ROAD IN TULSA COUNTY ABOUT
230 AM. NUMEROUS TREES WERE DOWNED AS WELL
AS 5 POWER POLES NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF
101ST AND COUNTY LINE ROAD. THE TORNADO
MOVED NORTHEAST AND CROSSED COUNTY LINE
ROAD AT ABOUT 97 ST. MANY HOMES SUSTAINED
SOME MINOR ROOF DAMAGE...WITH THE DAMAGE PATH
ABOUT 50 YARDS WIDE. A SMALL MOBILE HOME WAS
OVERTURNED NEAR 91ST AND JUST EAST OF COUNTY
LINE ROAD. THE TORNADO MOVED NORTHEAST INTO
WAGONER COUNTY AND PRODUCED STRUCTURAL
DAMAGE TO A GAS EQUIPMENT PLANT NEAR 81ST
AND SH51. AN OUTSIDE WALL WAS PUSHED 18 INCHES
$ INTO THE BUILDING. THE TOTAL LENGTH OF THE
TORNADOES PATH WAS ABOUTH 3 1/2 MILES LONG.
...THE POWER POLES WERE DOWN AT 101ST AND COUNTY LINE ROAD...Local storm report, May 11, 5:03 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
500 PM CDT MON MAY 11 1992
TIME(CDT) COUNTY REPORT
400 PM PITTSBURG TORNADO NEAR ASHLAND.
403 PM PITTSBURG TORNADO JUST WEST OF KIOWA.
412 PM MCINTOSH HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS FELL IN
EUFAULA.
440 PM PITTSBURG TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF HAILEYVILLE.
SURVEY OF TORNADOES WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED TUESDAY MORNING WITH BA
MORE DETAILED REPORT.Special weather statement, May 11, 6:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
OKC077-120030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 623 PM CDT MON MAY 11 1992 ...TORNADO DISSIPATES IN LATIMER COUNTY... THE TORNADO WHICH WAS REPORTED 9 MILES SOUTH OF WILB7URTON AROUND 545 PM HAS DISSIPATED AND IS NO LONGER A THREAT. THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM HAS DECREASED IN INTENSITY AND THE REMNANTS OF THE STORM HAVE MOVED OUT OF LATIMER COUNTY. THE WARNING WHICH WAS ISSUED WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
Special weather statement, May 11, 7:05 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
OKC077-120100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 700 PM CDT MON MAY 11 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH CANCELLED FOR SEVERAL COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA... THE TORNADO WATCH WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA UNTIL MIDNIGHT HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... SEQUOYAH...HASKELL...AND LATIMER. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED EAST OF THESE COUNTIES ENDING THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 60 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.