Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1993, 8:12 PM CDT for Osage County, Washington County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1993, 8:12 PM CDT (01:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1993, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Osage County, OK, Washington County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2047 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
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 Jun 8, 3:38 PM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 3:38 PM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 335 PM CDT TUE JUN 8 1993 DUE TO ONGOING WX WL CONFINE DISC MOSTLY TO FIRST PD... LN OF TSTMS IN SE OK HAS BCM PARALLEL TO THE MID LVL FLOW AND ECHO TRAINNG IS UNDERWAY FM S OF MLC TO NR FSM. WL EXTEND FFA IN THIS AREA INTO TNGT AS CONVCTN CONTS TO DVLP IN N TX AND STREAM NEWD INTO THE SAME AREA. WL HOLD FFA OUT OF ZONE 40 FOR NOW AS THE LN HAS BN SLOW TO SAG SEWD...BUT WL MENTION THE WATCH MAY NEED TO BE INCLUDED LATER. DISC WITH RFC INDICATES THAT IT WUD TAKE FAIR AMOUNT OF RAIN THERE TO PRODUCE FLASH FLOODNG. DQU PROFILER SHOWS 0-2KM S-R HELCITY OF 165 AT 19Z...WITH BNDRY INTERACTNS WUD XPCT LCL POCKETS OF HIGHER S-R HELICYT AND CELLS MAY TAKE ON HP SUPERCELL CHARACTERISTICS. ASIDE FM THE SVR/TOR THREAT THIS CUD ALSO RESULT IN EXCESSIVE RAINFALL TOTALS. SAT PICS SHOW VORT RACNG INTO SRN KS AT 20Z TO THE SW OF ICT. MESOSCALE DRY SLOT ASSOCD WITH THE VORT SMEEMS TO HV INHIBITD CONVCTN ON THE DRYLN IN OK. HOWEVR...VSBL SAT PICS SHOW CLDS THINNG IN NE OK AND SFC BASED LI/S AT 20Z WERE -6 TO -8....WITH MSTR CONVGNC INCRSNG ON THE DRY LN W OF PNC. ITS NOT CLR IF SUBSIDNC BHND THE VORT WL COMPLETELY STOP CONVCTN FM DVLPNG IN THE MSTR CONVCGNC IN OK. FOR NOW WL BGN TO PLAY IT DOWN AND WL GO WITH CHC POPS IN NE OK FOR TNGT. SHUD STORMS DVLP IN NE OK THE WIND FIELDS WUD SUPPORT THE CELLS TAKING ON SUPERCELL CHARACTERISTICS...AS THEY HV DONE JUST N OF THE BORDER BTWEN PNC AND ICT. AS THE VORT LOBE PASSES OK THE CONVCTN IN SE OK MAY TEND TO WKN...BUT THIS LOSS OF FORCNG MAY BE OFFSET BY NOCTURNAL INCRSES IN THE LLVL FLOW. THE CDFNT MERGG INTO THE DRYLN OVR KS WL BE JUST NW OF THE FA LT TNGT...WITH STEEP LAPES RATES AND HI LVL MSTR PROGD FOR TNGT...STORMS CUD AGN DVLP LT TNGT AND AFFECT PARTS OF NE OK. FNT IS PROGD TO REMAIN IN THE AREA THRU THU. ALTHO THE WIND FIELDS WL BE WKNG...ENUF CAPE AND MSTR CONVGNC IS LKLY TO BE AVAILBL FOR SCT STORMS THRU THE FCST PD. TUL 068/084 068/084 062 3344 MLC 068/084 067/083 065 5344 BVO 068/084 066/084 XXX 3234 IDB 069/084 069/084 XXX 6334 /8 .OK...FFA TNGT ALL OR PARTS OF ZONES 31 - 34.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 7:15 PM CDT, 57 minutes before
OKC113-090115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 715 PM CDT TUE JUN 8 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA UNTIL 11 PM... AT 715 PM...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR HULAH LAKE TO ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF BURBANK AND ON WESTWARD INTO KAY COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THEY WERE MOVING MAINLY TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 7:16 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
OKC113-090115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 715 PM CDT TUE JUN 8 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA UNTIL 11 PM... AT 715 PM...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR HULAH LAKE TO ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF BURBANK AND ON WESTWARD INTO KAY COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THEY WERE MOVIN4G MAINLY TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH.
Local storm report, Jun 8, 8:06 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 55 min |
| Jun 8, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 50 min |
| Jun 8, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Nowata | 54 min |
| Jun 9, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 46 min |
| Jun 9, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 37 min |
| Jun 9, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 54 min |
| Jun 9, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee | 68 min |
| Jun 9, 4:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 47 min |
| Jun 9, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 53 min |
| Jun 9, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 44 min |
| Jun 9, 4:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Rogers | 44 min |
| Jun 9, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 62 min |
| Jun 9, 4:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Craig, Mayes, Rogers | 49 min |
| Jun 9, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 68 min |
| Jun 9, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Wagoner | 63 min |
| Jun 9, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 42 min |
| Jun 9, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 68 min |
| Jun 9, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 50 min |
| Jun 9, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 45 min |
| Jun 9, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 40 min |
| Jun 9, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware | 64 min |
| Jun 9, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 69 min |
| Jun 9, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 60 min |
| Jun 9, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 38 min |
| Jun 9, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, 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.