Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1992, 3:04 PM CDT for Muskogee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1992, 3:04 PM CDT (20:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1992, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Muskogee County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 471 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 980 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 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 162005 SVRTUL OKC101-162045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 304 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ... IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA ...MUSKOGEE COUNTY AT 300 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR KEEFETON MOVING TO THE NORTHWEST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS MOVEMENT WILL TAKE THE STORM NEAR THE CITY OF MUSKOGEE BEFORE 330 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR2 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 16, 1:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
OKZ026>034-040-171200- EASTERN OKLAHOMA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 130 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 1992 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA THROUGH THIS EVENING. A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS REMAINS IN PLACE ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON. CLOUDS HAVE BEEN ON THE INCREASE ACROSS THE AREA TODAY AS AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER TEXAS DRAWS MOISTURE NORTHWARD. THIS INCREASE IN CLOUD COVER HAS KEEP TEMPERATURES SLIGHTLY COOLER OVER THE AREA TODAY...HOWEVER ENOUGH WARMING HAS OCCURRED TO ALLOW SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN WIDELY SCATTERED OVER EASTERN OKLAHOMA...HOWEVER SUFFICIENT INSTABILITY IS PRESENT TO ALLOW A FEW STORMS TO BRIEFLY REACH SEVERE LIMITS. LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT. WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP ARE T0HEN EXPECTED TO DIMINISH LATER THIS EVENING. CIVIL DEFENSE AND SPOTTER GROUPS OVER THE AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE READY FOR ACTIVATION IF NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.
Special weather statement, May 16, 2:19 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
OKZ031-033-162015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 218 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA... AT 215 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN OKLAHOMA OVER PITTSBURG AND HASKELL COUNTIES. STRONG STORMS WERE AROUND THE MACALESTER AREA...AND ALSO MOVING INTO THE LAKE EUFAULA AREA IN SOUTHERN MCINTOSH COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHWEST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE ALSO LIKELY.
Special weather statement, May 16, 3:02 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
OKZ031-162100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 302 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE MOVING ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA... AT 300 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUSKOGEE... HASKELL AND LATIMER COUNTIES EXTENDING FROM SOUTH OF MUSKOGEE TO NEAR STIGLER TO NEAR RED OAK. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE OVER WESTERN MCINTOSH COUNTY AND NORTHERN PITTSBURG COUNTY NEAR INDIANOLA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHWEST AT 25 MLIES AN HOUR AND WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. BRIEF GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THE STRONGER STORMS.
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.