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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 349, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1994, 8:08 PM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 20, 1994, 8:08 PM CDT (01:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 1994, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Osage County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 20, 3:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 3:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before
FPUS3 KTUL 202029 AFDTUL AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 330 PM CDT WED JUL 20 1994 LOOKS LIKE THE SUMMER MONSOON WILL CONTINUE ACROSS ERN OK. ALREADY ONE OF THE WETTEST JULY`S ON RECORD AT TUL AND IT WILL GET EVEN WETTER. MESONET DATA SHOWS SFC TROF INTO OSAGE AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES ATTM WITH COLD FRONT STILL FROM WEST OF ICT TO NORTH OF GAG. WEAK CAP OVER AREA HAS HELD BACK CONVECTION THUS FAR BUT EXPECT RAPID TSTM DEVELOPMENT THIS EVENING NEAR THE OK/KS BORDER WITH TSTMS THEN PROPAGATING SOUTHEAST OVERNIGHT. LOW LEVEL JET PROGGED TO INCREASE THIS EVENING TO HELP FUEL STORMS WITH BOTH SEVERE STORMS AND HEAVY RAINFALL A DISTINCT POSSIBILITY. SEVERE THREAT LIKELY TO DIMINISH LATE TONIGHT AS LOW LEVEL WINDS BEGIN TO VEER TO THE SOUTHWEST. FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL BE A SLOW MOVER AND IT SHOULD REMAIN SOMEWHERE IN THE FCST AREA THROUGH FRIDAY. ETA MODEL NEVER EVEN GETS THE FRONT TO TULSA BUT FEEL THAT CONVECTION WILL BE ENOUGH TO SHOVE FRONT...OR AT LEAST A SIGNIFICANT WIND SHIFT...DOWN INTO SE OK. PW VALUES REMAIN HIGH NEAR THE FRONTAL ZONE THROUGH FRIDAY SO EXPECT CONVECTION TO BE FAIRLY WIDESPREAD AGAIN THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. GUIDANCE POPS LOOK MUCH TOO LOW THROUGH THE PERIOD AND FEEL THAT THE NMC QPF GRAPHICS LOOK PRETTY REASONABLE. WILL DROP POPS FROM EXTREME NRN ZONES THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY BUT HANG ONTO A MENTION ELSEWHERE. NGM HAS A TENDENCY TO DRY THINGS OUT TOO MUCH BEHIND THESE WEAK FRONTS AND PREFER THE ETA IN THIS CASE. EVEN THE ISENTROPIC LIFT FROM THE NGM LOOKS FAVORABLE FOR PRECIP OVER AT LEAST THE SRN HALF OF THE AREA THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY. SITUATION SIMILAR TO JULY 8-11 WHEN PRECIP JUST WOULD NOT QUIT IN SE OK DESPITE NEGLIGIBLE GUIDANCE POPS. TEMPS WILL BE DIFFICULT THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS WITH CONVECTIVE DEBRIS PLAYING A BIG ROLE. WILL GENERALLY UNDERCUT THE NGM MOS TEMPS IN ALL FCST PERIODS BUT ESPECIALLY DURING THE DAYTIME. TUL 70/88/70/90/70 8422 MLC 72/90/70/90/70 5644 BVO 68/88/67/90/68 9311 IDB 72/93/72/90/71 3544 .TUL...NONE. PLATE FPCN25CWEG .-Q
In the hours before
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.