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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jun 18, 1992, 3:43 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 32 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
- Jun 18, 1992, 3:43 PM CDT (20:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1992, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pawnee County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Pawnee, OK | |
| Jun 18, 4:00 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Pawnee, 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
Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 241 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
- 890 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1295 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 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 182045 COR TORTUL OKC117-182115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING ...CORRECTION TO TIME.... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 343 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...WESTERN PAWNEE COUNTY AT 340 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PAWNEE. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AND WILL PASS CLOSE TO MARAMEC DURING THE PAST 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 42 min |
| Jun 18, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 60 min |
| Jun 18, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 47 min |
| Jun 18, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 51 min |
| Jun 18, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 43 min |
| Jun 18, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 43 min |
| Jun 18, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 47 min |
| Jun 18, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 48 min |
| Jun 18, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 44 min |
| Jun 18, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee | 46 min |
| Jun 18, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 50 min |
| Jun 18, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 50 min |
| Jun 18, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 46 min |
| Jun 18, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 41 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.