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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 2, 1994Creek County, Tulsa County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 1994, 6:57 PM CST for Creek County, Tulsa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 1994, 6:57 PM CST (00:57 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 1994, 7:45 PM CST
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Creek County, OK, Tulsa County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 143 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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 030058
SVRTUL
OKC037-143-030145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
657 PM CST (757 PM CDT) SAT APR 2 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM CST (845 PM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONSS...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...CREEK COUNTY...SOUTHERN TULSA COUNTY
 
AT 655 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED TWO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS. THE FIRST STORM WAS IN WESTERN CREEK COUNTY 5 MILES EAST
OF SHAMROCK AND THE SECOND STORM WAS IN SOUTHERN TULSA COUNTY JUST EAST
OF GLENPOOL. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
 
NUMEROUS REPORTS OF DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND WINDS TO 60 MILES AN
HOUR HAVE OCCURRED WITH THESE STORMS.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH
LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARN ING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
 
 
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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 Apr 2, 3:45 PM CST, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 3:45 PM CST, 3 hours 12 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

Local storm report, Apr 2, 5:47 PM CST, 1 hour 10 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, 56 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

Local storm report, Apr 2, 6:09 PM CST, 48 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
708 PM CDT SAT APR 02 1994

TIME(CST)    COUNTY       EVENT

600 PM       CREEK        NICKLE SIZE HAIL 1 MILE WEST OF MANNFORD.

Local storm report, Apr 2, 6:15 PM CST, 42 minutes before

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

TIME(CST)    COUNTY       EVENT

612 PM       TULSA        QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN DOWNTOWN TULSA

Special weather statement, Apr 2, 6:16 PM CST, 41 minutes before

OKC121-030115-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
614 PM CST (714 PM CDT) SAT APR 2 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...

AT 613 PM A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN NORTHWEST PONTOTOC COUNTY
NORTHWEST OF ADA.  THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND
MAY BEGIN TO AFFECT PARTS OF WESTERN PITTSBURG COUNTY BY 715 PM.  THIS
STORM HAS A HISTORY OF SEVERE WEATHER.

PERSONS IN PITTSBUlRG COUNTY SHOULD LISTEN CLOSELY FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

Local storm report, Apr 2, 6:52 PM CST, 5 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
650 PM CST SAT APR 02 1994

TIME(CST)    COUNTY       EVENT

635 PM       ROGERS       DIME SIZE HAIL 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF
                          INOLA.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 6:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	56 min
Apr 2, 6:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers	50 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

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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.