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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 28, 1993Nowata County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1993, 7:27 PM CST for Nowata County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 28, 1993, 7:27 PM CST (01:27 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 1993, 8:30 PM CST
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Nowata County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 162 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1450 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 214 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 28, 3:26 PM CST, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 3:26 PM CST, 4 hours 1 minute before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
325 PM CST SUN MAR 28 1993

DRY LINE REMAINS WEST OF TUL AND MLC WITH TSTMS DVLPG ATTM JUST NW OF
TUL.  APRS UPR TROF HAS NOT MOVED COMPLETELY OUT OF THE AREA YET...AND
WILL HAVE TO KEEP A CHANCE OF RW/TRW IN THE FCSTS INTO THE EARLY EVE.
BEST SUPPORT FOR TRW IS OVER NERN OK...AND THAT SHD DMSH RPDLY AFT 00Z.
SO WILL GO CHC CTGRY ARND 30-40 PERCENT NRN ZONES AND ONLY ARND 20
PERCENT FOR SRN HALF OF AREA.

THE UPPER TROF WILL LIFT NNEWD AND WKN TNGT AND MONDAY.  THAT WILL PUT
ERN OK IN A RESPITE ON MONDAY.  THE UPPER TROF WILL CONT TO DIG OVER
SRN ROCKIES AND LEAVE ERN OK IN THE RIDGE.  SLY WINDS SHD CONT AND KEEP
LOW LEVEL MSTR OVER THE AREA...BUT THERE SHOULD BE PLENTY OF SUN AND
FOR TEMPS TO WARM TO AROUND 80 THRUT THE AREA.  THE TEMPS SHD DVLP AFTN
CLOUDS...BUT LACK OF UPPER SUPPORT SHOULD HELP PREVENT RW/TRW.

THE UPPER TROF PUSHED INTO WRN TX MONDAY NIGHT...AND COULD SPREAD RW/TRW
INTO ERN OK BY LATE IN THE NIGHT.  WILL INCLUDE POPS FOR THAT.  BEST BET
FOR PCPN APPEARS TO BE ON TUESDAY WHEN THE TROF MOVES INTO OK AND NRN
TX.  SHD BE PLENTY OF MOISTURE AND DYNAMICS.  MAY SEE SOME SUNSHINE
SOUTH AS DRY SLOT TRIES TO WORK INTO SERN OK...SO WILL GO A LITTLE
WARMER THAN GUID IN THAT AREA.  OTRW...WILL MAKE ONLY MINOR ADJUSTMENTS
TO GUID POPS AND TEMPS.

TUL UT 055/082 058/070 048 022-36
MLC UT 057/082 060/074 051 022-36
BVO UT 054/080 056/069 XXX 022-36
IDB UT 055/080 060/075 XXX 022-26

...02...

.OK...NONE.

In the hours before

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Local storm report, Mar 28, 4:38 PM CST, 2 hours 49 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
431 PM CST SUN MAR 28 1993

TIME              COUNTY               EVENT

930 AM            CRAIG                DIME SIZE HAIL 3 MILES
                                       WEST OF WELCH

1005 AM           OSAGE                QUARTER-SIZE HAIL 5 MILES
                                       SOUTH OF SHIDLER

1110 AM           CRAIG                PENNY SIZE HAIL 2 MILES
                                       WEST OF HOLLOW

1115 AM            CRAIG               NICKEL SIZE HAIL 4 MILES
                                       NORTHWEST OF CENTRALIA

Local storm report, Mar 28, 6:55 PM CST, 32 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 28, 6:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Washington	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.