Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 320, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1994, 1:33 AM CDT for Cherokee County, Wagoner County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1994, 1:33 AM CDT (06:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1994, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cherokee County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 2119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 849 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 301 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.6
- Supercell composite
- 13.5
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 Jul 7, 8:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 8:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 845 PM CDT THU JUL 7 1994 ALTHO MOST OF EOK WAS CAPPED THIS EVE...AMS RMNS VERY UNSTBL AND SVR TSTMS PRBL IF CAP CAN BE OVRCOME. SATL PICS INDCT VORT MAX TRACKING ACRS NWRN KS IN GOOD AGRMNT WITH NGM. HWVR..00Z UA ANALYS INDCTS H7 COLD POOL XTNDG SWD WITH DDC COOLING FM +15 TO +6 DURG THE PAST 12 HRS. COLD POOL SHUD UNDO CAP OVR NERN OK AND XPCT TSTMS TO BCM MORE NUFMEROUS OVRNGT. XPCT ACTVTY TO FOCUS ALG OR JUST NORTH OF A BNDRY WHICH XTNDS FM BVO-OUN ARND 01Z. AFTN FCST LOOKS ON TRACK AND WL MAKE ONLY MINOR CHGS ON THIS UPDATE. ..11.. .TUL...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 7, 11:11 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
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OKZ061-062-067-080715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 118 AM CDT FRI JUL 8 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA... AT 110 AM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING BETWEEN CATOOSA AND INOLA. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN AS IT MOVES ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHEAST ROGERS COUNTY AND NORTHERN WAGONER COUNTY... AND SOUTHERN MAYES COUNTY.
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 1:18 AM CDT, 15 minutes before
OKZ061-062-067-080715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 118 AM CDT FRI JUL 8 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA... AT 110 AM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING BETWEEN CATOOSA AND INOLA. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN AS IT MOVES ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHEAST ROGERS COUNTY AND NORTHERN WAGONER COUNTY... AND SOUTHERN MAYES COUNTY.
Local storm report, Jul 8, 1:33 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
127 AM CDT FRI JUL 08 1994
TIME COUNTY EVENT
1235 AM TULSA NICKLE SIZE HAIL IN TULSA AT 91ST AND
SHERIDAN
1237 AM TULSA QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN EAST TULSA AT
161 ST AND THE BROKEN ARROW EXPRESSWAY.
1238 AM TULSA HALF DOLLAR HAIL IN BROKEN ARROW AT
71ST AND KENOSHA.The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 49 min |
| Jul 7, 8:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 50 min |
| Jul 7, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 50 min |
| Jul 7, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers | 54 min |
| Jul 7, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 49 min |
| Jul 7, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 30 min |
| Jul 7, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers | 49 min |
| Jul 7, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 32 min |
| Jul 7, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Tulsa | 42 min |
| Jul 7, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 52 min |
| Jul 7, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware, Mayes | 54 min |
| Jul 7, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa | 46 min |
| Jul 8, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 30 min |
| Jul 8, 12:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa, Wagoner | 61 min |
| Jul 8, 2:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 51 min |
| Jul 8, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 57 min |
| Jul 8, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 47 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.