Tornado Warning 18, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

Sep 8, 1992, 9:28 PM CDT (02:28 UTC)

Expired

Sep 8, 1992, 10:15 PM CDT

In force

47 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties

County Mayes County, 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.

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 090228
TORTUL
OKC097-090315-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
928 PM CDT TUE SEP 8 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...MAYES COUNTY
 
AT 925PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
SALINA.
 
THE STORM WAS DRIFTING EAST AT LESS THAN 10 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
WATCH FOR SIGNS OF DEVELOPING STORMS.  LARGE HAILSTONES AND UNUSUALLY
LOW SWIRLING CLOUDS ARE MANY TIMES SEEN NEAR DEVELOPING TORNADOES.
STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND TORNADOES OFTEN PRODUCE A LOUD ROARING
SOUND THAT CAN BE HEARD IN THE VICINITY OF STORMS. FREQUENT AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING OCCURS WITH MOST SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
 
KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Sep 8, 9:17 PM CDT, 11 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
910 PM CDT TUE SEP 8 1992

INTNS CLUSTER OF TSTMS CONTS OVR PARTS OF NERN OK.  CLUSTER JUST WL
NOT DMNSH AND AM CONCERNED ABT FL FLDG.  THIS WL BE A SMALL SCALE
EVENT SO WL GO WITH A FFA FOR MAYES AND ROGERS COUNTIES IN ZN 29 AND
INCLUDE ALL OF ZN 28 FOR THE REST OF TNGT.  ELSW WL DCRS OR REMOVE
POPS FOR THE REST OF THE NGT.  REST OF FCST WL SEE ONLY MINOR CHGS.

..11..

.OK...FFA TNGT PARTS OF NERN OK (ZN 28 AND NERN 2 COUNTIES IN ZN 29).

In the hours before

OKZ027-028-029-082345-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
543 PM CDT TUE SEP 8 1992

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA...

AT 538PM CDT A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS RAPIDLY
DEVELOPING IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA FROM JUST WEST OF JAY IN ADAIR
COUNTY...TO NEAR TULSA.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN THIS LINE IN WESTERN MAYES
COUNTY...AN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM
FOR MAYES COUNTY.

CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THESE STORMS TO RAPIDLY INTENSIFY AND
PERSONS IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA SHOULD LISTEN CLOSELY FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION FROM THEJ NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

Tornado Warnings in Oklahoma, 1992Every tornado warning in 1992Tornadoes in 1992

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.