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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 2, 1994Tulsa County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 1994, 6:04 PM CST for Tulsa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 1994, 6:04 PM CST (00:04 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 1994, 7:00 PM CST
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Tulsa County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 1249 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1451 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 118 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 4.4

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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, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 3:45 PM CST, 2 hours 19 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.

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In the hours before

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Local storm report, Apr 2, 5:47 PM CST, 17 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
547 PM CST SAT APR 2 1994

TIME(CST)    COUNTY       EVENT

535 PM       PAWNEE        QUARTER SIZE HAIL FELL 6 MILES SOUTHWEST
                           OF MARAMEC ON HIGHWAY 18.

Local storm report, Apr 2, 6:01 PM CST, 3 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
700 PM CST SAT APR 2 1994

TIME(CST)    COUNTY       EVENT

554 PM       CREEK        DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH AT
                        &  OILTON

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 6:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers	50 min
Apr 2, 6:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	48 min
Apr 2, 7:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Wagoner	51 min
Apr 2, 7:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	63 min
Apr 2, 7:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	30 min
Apr 2, 8:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg	48 min
Apr 2, 8:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	43 min
Apr 2, 8:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	57 min
Apr 2, 8:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	50 min
Apr 2, 8:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer	47 min
Apr 2, 10:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	65 min
Apr 2, 10:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee	42 min
Apr 2, 10:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	30 min
Apr 2, 10:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	46 min
Apr 2, 10:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell	39 min
Apr 2, 11:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	56 min
Apr 2, 11:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh	40 min
Apr 2, 11:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	53 min
Apr 2, 11:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin	61 min
Apr 3, 12:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Logan	62 min
Apr 3, 4:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Johnson	60 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.