Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 1994, 5:31 PM CST for Creek County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 1994, 5:31 PM CST (23:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 1994, 6:30 PM CST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Creek County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -689 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1160 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Apr 2, 3:45 PM CST, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 3:45 PM CST, 1 hour 46 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 345 PM CST SAT APR 2 1994 TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NE OK UNTIL 8 PM. TSTMS DEVELOPING TO OUR WEST WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS ERN OK THIS EVENING AS COLD FRONT JUST ENTERING THE NORTHWEST PART OF OUR FCST AREA MOVES SOUTH INTO THE AREA. FRONT SHOULD CLEAR EXTREME SE OK AFTER MIDNIGHT. CLOUDINESS WILL LINGER FOR A FEW HOURS FOLLOWING FROPA BUT A CLEARING TREND SHOULD COMMENCE FROM NORTH TO SOUTH AFTER MIDNIGHT. WINDS MAY DIMINISH JUST ENOUGH AROUND DAYBREAK TO ALLOW TEMPS TO FALL TO NEAR FREEZING ALONG THE KS BORDER BUT NO FREEZE WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED ATTM. GUIDANCE TEMPS SEVERAL DEGREES TOO WARM IN NE OK FOR MINS TONIGHT. QUIET WEATHER EXPECTED SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY WITH SOUTH WINDS RETURNING SUNDAY NIGHT AND KEEPING TEMPS FROM BOTTOMING OUT IN MOST AREAS. NGM MOS TEMPS SEEM A LITTLE LOW SUNDAY BUT ARE REASONABLE IN MOST AREAS SUNDAY NIGHT. GULF MOISTURE WILL BEGIN TO RETURN NORTH MONDAY BUT WILL KEEP SKIES MOSTLY SUNNY FOR NOW WITH TEMPS SEVERAL DEGREES WARMER THAN THE NGM MOS. ARCTIC FRONT WILL BE LURKING TO THE NORTH BY MONDAY EVENING AND MAY MOVE INTO NE OK BY SUNRISE TUESDAY. WILL INTRODUCE SHOWERS AND TSTMS TO THE MONDAY NIGHT PORTION OF THE FCST WITH SEVERE WEATHER A GOOD BET TUESDAY IF THE FRONT DOES NOT PLUNGE TOO FAR SOUTH. UNFORTUNATELY AVN GRIDDED DATA WAS NOT AVAILABLE TO SEE 72 HOUR PRODUCTS. TUL 35/66/44/80/42 6000 MLC 42/68/39/77/54 7000 BVO 33/65/39/80/38 4000 IDB 50/69/37/76/54 6-00 .TUL...NONE. PLATE
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Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 4:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 55 min |
| Apr 2, 5:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 55 min |
| Apr 2, 5:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek | 66 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.