Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 173, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1994, 6:49 AM CDT for Okfuskee County, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 1994, 6:49 AM CDT (11:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1994, 7:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 1390 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1160 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
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 May 7, 4:32 AM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 7, 4:32 AM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 430 AM CDT SAT MAY 7 1994 AT 0830 THE CDFNT XTNDD FM NR MIAMI TO NR BRISTOW...WITH AN APRNT TSTM BNDRY ACRS THE MID PART OF THE FA FM NR OKEMAH TO EUFAULA. EARLIER SUPERCELLS DIED AS THEY MOVD INTO THE STRGR CAP OVR SE OK. CONVCTN HAS BN INCRSNG IN NE OK JUST N OF THE FNT WHERE FNTL LIFT AND UVM ASSOCD WITH THE RRQ OF AN H3 WIND MAX AND DIFFLNT FLOW ALOFT WERE PHASING. WL GO WITH SCT SHWRS AND TSTMS FOR TODAY ACRS THE FA...WITH THE ACTVTY ENDING FM THE NW DURING THE DAY AS THE FNT PUSHES SE AND OUT OF THE FA LATE TODAY. A FEW SVR STRMS PSBL THIS MRNG IN NE OK AND AGN IN SE OK THIS AFTN DURING THE USUAL DIURNAL TIMES FOR PEAK ACTVTY. THE FNT WL STALL ACRS E TX AND LA LATE TNGT AND MAY SHIFT A LTL N SUN AND SUN NITE AS THE SWRN U.S. SYS APCHS. WAA PRECIP SHUD BE ON THE INCRS SUN NITE AND MONDAY AS THE SFC FNT RMNS NR THE SRN PART OF THE FA AND THE UPR SYS TO THE SW DRAWS NR. FYI FOR VORTEX...ARCHIVES II...III AND IV WERE UP DURNG LAST NITES EVENTS. THE TVS TRIPPED 3 TIMES. TUL 074/048 072/057 067 40-4 MLC 074/052 073/058 068 40-4 BVO 074/046 072/055 XXX 30-4 IDB 079/053 075/057 XXX 4-14 /8 .TUL...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 7, 2:58 AM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
OKC061-077-091-101-107-111-121-070900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 255 AM CDT SAT MAY 7 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH 195 HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE TORNADO WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA UNTIL 400 AM HAS BEEN CANCELLED. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA HAVE BEEN WEAKENING. THE ATMOSPHERE HAS BECOME LESS FAVORABLE FOR TORNADIC AND/OR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP. THUS THE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Special weather statement, May 7, 3:45 AM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
OKZ054-059-060-070945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 345 AM CDT SAT MAY 7 1994 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO WESTERN PAWNEE COUNTY... AT 340AM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE CITY OF PAWNEE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN PAWNEE COUNTY BY 4AM. OTHER THUNDERSTORM WERE NORTH OF A LINE FROM NOWATA TO STILLWATER. LISTEN FOR FURTHER UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
Special weather statement, May 7, 3:46 AM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
OKZ054-059-060-070945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 345 AM CDT SAT MAY 7 1994 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO WESTERN PAWNEE COUNTY... AT 340AM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE CITY OF PAWNEE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN PAWNEE COUNTY BY 4AM. OTHER THUNDERSTORM WERE N.ORTH OF A LINE FROM NOWATA TO STILLWATER. LISTEN FOR FURTHER UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
Local storm report, May 7, 5:55 AM CDT, 54 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, May 7, 5:56 AM CDT, 53 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
556 AM CDT SAT MAY 07 1994
TIME(CDT) COUNTY EVENT
520 AM WASHINGTON DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS TO 50 MPH
AT OCHELETA.Local storm report, May 7, 5:58 AM CDT, 51 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
556 AM CDT SAT MAY 07 1994
TIME(CDT) COUNTY EVENT
520 AM WASHINGTON DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS TO 50 MPH
AT OCHELEbTA.The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 47 min |
| May 6, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 49 min |
| May 6, 8:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Nowata | 42 min |
| May 6, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Rogers | 63 min |
| May 6, 8:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 67 min |
| May 6, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 49 min |
| May 6, 9:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek | 67 min |
| May 6, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 40 min |
| May 6, 10:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek | 57 min |
| May 6, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee | 68 min |
| May 6, 11:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee | 60 min |
| May 6, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 52 min |
| May 6, 11:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 43 min |
| May 7, 12:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 46 min |
| May 7, 12:37 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Pittsburg | 53 min |
| May 7, 1:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 45 min |
| May 7, 4:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 27 min |
| May 7, 4:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 46 min |
| May 7, 5:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 43 min |
| May 7, 5:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 43 min |
| May 7, 5:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 52 min |
| May 7, 6:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 56 min |
| May 7, 6:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 40 min |
| May 7, 7:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer | 40 min |
| May 7, 7:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 61 min |
| May 7, 9:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 45 min |
| May 7, 8:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Scott | 65 min |
| May 7, 9:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Polk | 46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.