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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 335, NWS Tulsa, OK

October 16, 1993LeFlore County, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 16, 1993, 5:33 AM CDT for LeFlore County, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 16, 1993, 5:33 AM CDT (10:33 UTC)
Expired: Oct 16, 1993, 6:30 AM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties LeFlore County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 243 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: 1061 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -121 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 551 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 198 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 231 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.8

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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 Oct 16, 3:15 AM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 16, 3:15 AM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 16, 12:15 AM CDT, 5 hours 18 minutes before

OKZ054-055-056-057-058-059-060-061-062-063-064-065-066-067-068-
160615-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1215 AM CDT SAT OCT 16 1993

...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AND WERE
MOVING NORTHEAST...

AT 1210AM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A DEVELOPING CLUSTER OF
THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL OKLAHOMA MOVING INTO LINCOLN COUNTY. THESE
STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO CREEK AND
PAWNEE COUNTY BETWEEN 1245AM AND 115AM. THESE STORMS HAVE ALREADY PRODUC
LARGE HAIL AND MAY ALSO CONTAIN STRONG WINDS. LISTEN FOR FURTHER UPDATES
FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

WWUS45KHAR,

Special weather statement, Oct 16, 12:16 AM CDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before

OKZ054-055-056-057-058-059-060-061-062-063-064-065-066-067-068-
160615-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1215 AM CDT SAT OCT 16 1993

...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AND WERE
MOVING NORTHEAST...

AT 1210AM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A DEVELOPING CLUSTER OF
THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL OKLAHOMA MOVING INTO LINCOLN COUNTY. THESE
STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO CREE^K AND
PAWNEE COUNTY BETWEEN 1245AM AND 115AM. THESE STORMS HAVE ALREADY PRODUC
LARGE HAIL AND MAY ALSO CONTAIN STRONG WINDS. LISTEN FOR FURTHER UPDATES
FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

Special weather statement, Oct 16, 5:04 AM CDT, 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 16, 5:06 AM CDT, 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 16, 5:07 AM CDT, 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 16, 5:25 AM CDT, 8 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
Oct 16, 12:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	36 min
Oct 16, 12:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	57 min
Oct 16, 1:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pawnee	55 min
Oct 16, 1:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	33 min
Oct 16, 1:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	45 min
Oct 16, 1:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	63 min
Oct 16, 3:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Okmulgee	60 min
Oct 16, 4:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	55 min
Oct 16, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	46 min
Oct 16, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	65 min
Oct 16, 4:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Tulsa	44 min
Oct 16, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Wagoner	58 min
Oct 16, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	46 min
Oct 16, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	66 min
Oct 16, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee	61 min
Oct 16, 6:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee	35 min
Oct 16, 9:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin	58 min
Oct 16, 9:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	64 min
Oct 16, 10:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin	59 min
Oct 16, 10:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	53 min
Oct 16, 10:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Johnson, Logan	61 min
Oct 16, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	56 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.