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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 346, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 17, 1994Latimer County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1994, 9:16 PM CDT for Latimer County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 17, 1994, 9:16 PM CDT (02:16 UTC)
Expired
Jul 17, 1994, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Latimer County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 260 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1994-07-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 121 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1994-07-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
121 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1543 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

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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 Jul 17, 8:54 PM CDT, 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 8:54 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 17, 5:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
543 PM CDT SUN JUL 17 1994

TIME (CDT)     COUNTY/STATE     EVENT

535 PM         SEBASTIAN/AR     GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN MIDLAND.

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Local storm report, Jul 17, 5:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
543 PM CDT SUN JUL 17 1994

TIME (CDT)     COUNTY/STATE     EVENT

535 PM         SEBASTIAN/AR     GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN MIDLAND.
Local storm report, Jul 17, 6:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
610 PM CDT SUN JUL 17 1994

TIME (CDT)     COUNTY/STATE     EVENT

600 PM         MADISON/AR       DIME SIZE HAIL ON HWY 16 2 MILES WEST
                                OF PETTIGREW.
Local storm report, Jul 17, 6:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
610 PM CDT SUN JUL 17 1994

TIME (CDT)     COUNTY/STATE     EVENT

600 PM         MADISON/AR       DIME SIZE HAIL ON HWY 16 2 MILES WEST
                                OF PETTIGREW.
Local storm report, Jul 17, 7:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
758 PM CDT SUN JUL 17 1994

TIME (CDT)     COUNTY/STATE     EVENT

715 PM         LEFLORE          HIGH WINDS BLEW DOWN LARGE TREE LIMBS
                                IN HODGENS CAUSING SOME POWER OUTAGES.
Local storm report, Jul 17, 8:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
758 PM CDT SUN JUL 17 1994

TIME (CDT)     COUNTY/STATE     EVENT

715 PM         LEFLORE          HIGH WINDS BLEW DOWN LARGE TREE LIMBS
                                IN HODGENS CAUSING SOME POWER OUTAGES.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 17, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore49 min
Jul 17, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore48 min
Jul 17, 8:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSALeFlore2 hr

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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.