Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1992, 7:26 AM CDT for Haskell County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 34 min. 3 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 14, 1992, 7:26 AM CDT (12:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1992, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Haskell County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 7:40 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Haskell, OK | |
| May 14, 7:40 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Haskell, OK | |
| May 14, 8:06 AM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Haskell, 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, 0.4 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -291 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1481 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 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 141226 SVRTUL OKC061-141300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 726 AM CDT THU MAY 14 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ... IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...HASKELL COUNTY AT 725 AM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF STIGLER. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND IS LIKELY TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AS IT MOVES TOWARD KEOTA. 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, May 14, 4:31 AM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
OKZ026>030-141030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 430 AM CDT THU MAY 14 1992 ...LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA... AT 430 AM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM THE KANSAS BORDER NORTH OF BARTLESVILLE SOUTHWESTWARD TO NEAR OILTON. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL PRODUCE SOME HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. PEOPLE IN BARTLESVILLE...TULSA AND ADJACENT AREAS SHOULD REMAIN INDOORS UNTIL THESE STORMS HAVE PASSED. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 3:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 53 min |
| May 14, 3:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 61 min |
| May 14, 4:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 45 min |
| May 14, 5:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 50 min |
| May 14, 5:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 57 min |
| May 14, 5:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 46 min |
| May 14, 6:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee | 52 min |
| May 14, 7:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 68 min |
| May 14, 8:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 30 min |
| May 14, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 68 min |
| May 14, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 58 min |
| May 14, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 61 min |
| May 14, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 67 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.