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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 262, NWS Tulsa, OK

September 14, 1993Cherokee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 14, 1993, 12:22 AM CDT for Cherokee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 14, 1993, 12:22 AM CDT (05:22 UTC)
Expired: Sep 14, 1993, 1:15 AM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Cherokee County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 215 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 253 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.3

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The text

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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 Sep 13, 8:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 13, 8:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
840 PM CDT MON SEP 13 1993

VERY BUSY WITH SVR WX/FF THIS EVENING. COLD FNT SHUD MOV THRU TUL AROUND
04Z. CLD TOPS CONT TO COOL OVR N TX AND WL SPREAD INTO OK DURING NIGHT.
WL DROP WATCH IN N ZNS BUT WL CONT ELSEWHERE FOR REMAINDER OF
NIGHT. ZNS LOOK REASONABLE WITH ONLY MINOR ADJUSTMENTS EXPECTED.

...10...

.OK...FFA ZNS 031>034-040 TONIGHT.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 13, 9:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
951 PM CDT MON SEP 13 1993

PRELIMINARY REPORT ON TORNADO REPORTS IN MUSKOGEE
COUNTY BASED ON PHONE CONVERSATIONS WITH EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
OFFICIALS IN THE AREA.

MUSKOGEE COUNTY...

AT 450 PM CDT A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED NEAR WAINWRIGHT IN
SOUTHWEST MUSKOGEE COUNTY.  THE FUNNEL WAS OBSERVED BY SEVERAL
PEOPLE.  REPORTS FROM THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS THERE
INDICATE THAT THE FUNNEL DID NOT TOUCH DOWN.

Local storm report, Sep 13, 10:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1001 PM CDT MON SEP 13 1993

PRELIMINARY REPORT ON TORNADO REPORTS IN OKMULGEE
COUNTY BASED ON PHONE CONVERSATIONS WITH EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
OFFICIALS IN THE AREA.

OKMULGEE COUNTY...

AT 622 PM CDT DAMAGE TO TREES AND A BOAT OCCURED ABOUT
1/4 MILE SOUTHEAST OF THE OKMULGEE WAL MART.  EARLY REPORTS
INDICATED THAT THE DAMAGE WAS THE RESULT OF A BRIEF TORNADO
TOCUHDOWN.

FOR THE TIME BEING THE TORNADO REPORT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED
UNCONFIRMED UNTIL FURTHER DATA IS GATHERED.

Local storm report, Sep 13, 10:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1001 PM CDT MON SEP 13 1993

PRELIMINARY REPORT ON TORNADO REPORTS IN OKMULGEE
COUNTY BASED ON PHONE CONVERSATIONS WITH EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
OFFICIALS IN THE AREA.

OKMULGEE COUNTY...

AT 622 PM CDT DAMAGE TO TREES AND A BOAT OCCURED ABOUT
1/4 MILE SOUTHEAST OF THE OKMULGEE WAL MART.  EARLY REPORTS
INDICATED THAT THE DAMAGE WAS THE RESULT OF A BRIEF TORNADO
TOCUHDOWN.

FOR THE TIME BEING THE TORNADO REPORT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED
UNCONFIRMED UNTIL FURTHER DATA IS GATHERED.

Local storm report, Sep 13, 11:25 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 13, 11:29 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 13, 11:31 PM CDT, 51 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
Sep 13, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee, Wagoner	52 min
Sep 13, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh	32 min
Sep 13, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	42 min
Sep 13, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Delaware	51 min
Sep 13, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	46 min
Sep 13, 8:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	5 hr
Sep 13, 8:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Cherokee	5 hr
Sep 13, 10:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Adair	4 hr
Sep 14, 1:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	43 min
Sep 13, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	56 min
Sep 14, 2:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	57 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.