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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 215, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1994, 2:17 AM CDT for LeFlore County, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1994, 2:17 AM CDT (07:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1994, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties LeFlore County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 1924 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 866 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- 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 Jun 5, 9:03 PM CDT, 5 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 9:03 PM CDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 900 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 1994 STRM COMPLEX OVR KS THIS EVNG MOVG SEWRD TWRD AREA WITH PRONOUNCED BOWING APPRCHNG NE OK STATE LINE. STRMS HV ACCELERATED SEWRD OVR THE PAST FEW HRS. BACKING LLVL WNDS WL CONT TO PROVIDE GOOD INFLOW SO STRMS XPCTD TO MAINTAIN POTNTL FOR SVR WX AS THEY MOV INTO AND ACRS FA NXT SVRL HRS. WL GENRLLY RAISE OVRNGT POPS AND INCLD MENTION FOR SVR...HITTING HARDEST OVR NRN AND CNTRL PARTS OF FA. REMAINDER OF AFTN PKG UNCHGD. ...04... .TUL...NONE.
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 5, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 57 min |
| Jun 5, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 59 min |
| Jun 5, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 68 min |
| Jun 5, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 68 min |
| Jun 5, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers | 51 min |
| Jun 5, 11:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Mayes | 68 min |
| Jun 5, 11:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee, Wagoner | 68 min |
| Jun 5, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 20 min |
| Jun 6, 1:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 43 min |
| Jun 6, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 41 min |
| Jun 6, 1:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Muskogee | 48 min |
| Jun 6, 1:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 62 min |
| Jun 6, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg | 62 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.