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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 19, 1992Osage County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 1992, 1:55 PM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report 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 19, 1992, 1:55 PM CDT (18:55 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 1992, 2:30 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Osage County, OK

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 19, 2:16 PM CDTTornado F0Osage, 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 181 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1992-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 974 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1992-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 132 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
974 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-323 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1610 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 191856
TORTUL
OKC113-191930-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
155 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  230 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...WESTERN OSAGE COUNTY
 
AT 155 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO
NEAR APPERSON. MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN ?HOUR. THE
COMMUNITIES OF BURBANK...SHIDLER AND WEBB CITY ARE IN THE PATH OF
THIS STORM.  TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
 
WATCH FOR SIGNS OF DEVELOPING STORMS.  LARGE HAILSTONES AND UNUSUALLY
LOW SWIRLING CLOUDS ARE MANY TIMES SEEN NEAR DEVELOPING TORN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 7:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSASequoyah64 min
Jun 18, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage44 min
Jun 18, 9:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSARogers44 min
Jun 18, 10:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage61 min
Jun 18, 11:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWashington56 min
Jun 18, 11:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWashington34 min
Jun 19, 12:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage54 min
Jun 19, 2:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSARogers51 min
Jun 19, 2:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Pawnee67 min
Jun 19, 2:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage, Tulsa48 min
Jun 19, 2:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMayes43 min
Jun 19, 2:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWagoner66 min
Jun 19, 3:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee, Okmulgee55 min
Jun 19, 3:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSARogers63 min
Jun 19, 3:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee61 min
Jun 19, 3:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Okfuskee61 min
Jun 19, 3:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSATulsa61 min
Jun 19, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSASequoyah62 min
Jun 19, 3:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee56 min
Jun 19, 4:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, Pittsburg32 min
Jun 19, 4:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkfuskee43 min
Jun 19, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSASequoyah64 min
Jun 19, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore64 min
Jun 19, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, Latimer, Pittsburg62 min
Jun 19, 5:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg65 min

Nearby

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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.