Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 11, 1992, 5:48 PM CDT for Latimer County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 1992, 5:48 PM CDT (22:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 1992, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Latimer County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 736 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -53 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 112248 TORTUL OKC077-112330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 548 PM CDT MON MAY 11 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ... IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...LATIMER COUNTY AT 545 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 9 MILES SOUTH OF WILBURTON MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM WILL BE APPROACHING THE COMMUNITY OF BENGAL ON ITS PRESENT COURSE. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET IN A GROUND DEPRESSION.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 11, 11:48 AM CDT, 6 hours before
OKZ029-111745- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1148 AM CDT MON MAY 11 1992 ...HEAVY RAINS MOVING INTO THE TULSA METROPOLITAN AREA... THE CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WHICH HAVE BEEN MOVING ACROSS CREEK COUNTWILL BE ENTERING THE TULSA METROPOLITAN AREA. THIS CLUSTER OF STORMS HAVE PRODUCED PEA SIZE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL NEAR DEPEW AND NEABRISTOW. THE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN THE TULSA AREA WHO ARE PLANNING TO BE OUTSIDE DURING THE NOOHOUR SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR A BRIEF PERIOD OF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL.
Special weather statement, May 11, 12:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before
OKZ029-111745- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ... CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1148 AM CDT MON MAY 11 1992 ...HEAVY RAINS MOVING INTO THE TULSA METROPOLITAN AREA... THE CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WHICH HAVE BEEN MOVING ACROSS CREEK COUNTY WILL BE ENTERING THE TULSA METRO AREA. THE CLUSTER OF STORMS HAVE PRODUCED PEA SIZE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL NEAR DEPEW AND BRISTOW. THE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN THE TULSA AREA WHO ARE PLANNING TO BE OUTSIDE DURING THE NOON HOUR SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR A BRIEF PERIOD OF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL.
Local storm report, May 11, 12:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
1253 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
111TH 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
I4NTO THE BUILDING. THE TOTAL LENGTH OF THE
TORNADOES PATH WAS ABOUTH 3 1/2 MILES LONG.Special weather statement, May 11, 1:40 PM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
OKZ026>034-040-121200- EASTERN OKLAHOMA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 140 PM CDT MON MAY 11 1992 THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA ALONG AND SOUTHWEST OF A LINE FROM THE KANSAS BORDER NORTH OF BARTLESVILLE TO TULSA TO MUSKOGEE TO THE ARKANSAS LINE AT FORT SMITH. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE REMAINDER OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. THE MORNING THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ESTABLISHED A BOUNDARY FROM JUST SOUTH OF FORT SMITH TO JUST SOUTH OF MCALESTER TO BETWEEN ARDMORE AND OKLAHOMA CITY. IN ADDITION A DRY LINE WAS ADVANCING INTO WESTERN OKLHAOMA. THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOW RAPIDLY DEVELOPING NORTHWEST OF OKLAHOMA CITY NEAR WHERE THE THUNDERSTORM BOUNDARY MEETS THE ADVANCING DRY LINE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO RAPIDLY BECOME SEVERE AND WILL DEVELOP EASTWARD ALONG THE BOUNDARY INTO SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD SOON DEVELOP ALONG THE DRY LINE FROM NEAR MEDICINE LODGE KANSAS SOUTHWARD INTO OKLAHOMA. THESE STORMS TOO WILL QUICKLY BECOME SEVERE. THE ATMOSPHERE ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE THUNDERSTORM BOUNDARY HAS BECOME EXTREMELY UNSTABLE WITH A FAVORABLE WIND PROFILE. TORNADOES WILL BE DEFINITE THREAT WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY TRACK ALONG THE BOUNDARY INTO SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...LARGE HAIL AND STRONG STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY THE STORMS. THE ATMOSPHERE AHEAD OF THE DRY LINE IN NORTH-CENTRAL OKLAHOMA IS MODERATELY UNSTABLE AND MAY DESTABILIZE FURTHER THIS AFTERNOON AS THE CLOUDS AHEAD OF THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE BREAKING UP AND ALLOWING SOME SUNSHINE. THE WIND PROFILE ACROSS NORTHERN OKLAHOMA IS ALSO FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. TORNADOES WILL BE A POSSIBILITY IN THE MODERATE RISK AREA OVER NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AS THE STORMS THAT FORM NEAR THE DRY LINE MOVE EASTWARD. THE ATMOSPHERE IN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA REMAINS RAIN-COOLED AND STABLE AT EARLY AFTERNOON. THE PARTIAL CLEARING NOW OCCURRING AHEAD OF THE DRY LINE MAY WORK INTO NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND ALLOW THE ATMOSPHERE TO DESTABILIZE. THIS...ALONG WITH THE FAVORABLE WIND PROFILE MAY RESULT IN ONE OR TWO OF THE THUNDERSTORMS REMAINING SEVERE TONIGHT AS THEY TRACK INTO THE SLIGHT RISK AREA. THE UPPER-AIR SYSTEM THAT WAS OVER EXTREME SOUTHWEST KANSAS AT EARLY AFTERNOON WAS SUPPORTING THE RAPID STORM DEVELOPMENT. THIS SYSTEM SHOULD BE EAST OF OKLAHOMA BY AROUND 1AM AND SHOULD DIMINISH THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT AT THAT TIME. SPOTTERS IN THE MODERATE RISK AREA SHOULD BEGIN TO ACTIVATE NOW AS TORNADO WATCHES ARE BEING POSTED. SPOTTERS IN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA SHOULD BE READY FOR ACTIVATION THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT.
Local storm report, May 11, 2:24 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 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, 45 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.The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee | 48 min |
| May 11, 3:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 30 min |
| May 11, 3:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Delaware | 27 min |
| May 11, 3:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 44 min |
| May 11, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Pittsburg | 38 min |
| May 11, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 45 min |
| May 11, 4:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 67 min |
| May 11, 5:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Pittsburg | 4 hr |
| May 11, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 59 min |
| May 11, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 63 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.