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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 423, NWS Tulsa, OK

November 3, 1994Cherokee County, Muskogee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 3, 1994, 8:00 AM CST for Cherokee County, Muskogee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 3, 1994, 8:00 AM CST (14:00 UTC)
Expired: Nov 3, 1994, 9:00 AM CST
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cherokee County, OK, Muskogee County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 178 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: 281 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -188 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1209 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 261 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 250 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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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 Nov 3, 4:07 AM CST, 3 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 3, 4:07 AM CST, 3 hours 53 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
400 AM CDT THU NOV 3 1994

RW/TRW OVR SERN OK THIS MRNG AS S/WV MOVG ACRS ETX.  AS WV MOVS
ON TO THE NE...PRECIP WL BE ENDING OVR SE OK DURING THE MRNG.
SUBSIDENCE BHND SYSTM SHLD SUPPRESS CHC OF PRECIP OVR THE AREA
FOR MUCH OF THE DAY...BUT WL STILL HOLD ONTO SLGT CHC OF A FEW
SHWRS BY LATE THIS AFTN.

MAIN ACTION (INCRSG POPS) FOR ERN OK WL BE LATER TNGT INTO
FRI...ALTHO SIG DIFFERENCES IN THE MDLS.  A BLEND OF AVN/ETA
APRS TO BE THE WAY TO GO...W/ NGM TO FAST BRINGING UPR SYS OUT
INTO THE PLNS AND TO FAR NORTH W/ SFC FTRS.  MESONET DATA SHOWS
CDFNT INTO XTRM NWRN OK THIS MRNG...AND WL LOOK FOR FNT TO MOV
INTO NWRN PART OF FA FRI...SIM TO MVMNT OF ETA.  WL GENRLLY
KP TEMPS ABV GUID.

PRELIM NUMBERS:  TUL 77/66/70 256  BVO 77/65/67 256
                 MLC 77/66/73 256  IDB 76/66/75 256
...04...

.TUL...CAUTION ON AREA LAKES TDA ZNS 54>56..59>61..64>67..
       70..71..73>75.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 3, 7:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	45 min
Nov 3, 8:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	49 min
Nov 3, 9:44 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Sequoyah	2 hr
Nov 3, 11:27 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer	33 min
Nov 3, 11:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	41 min
Nov 3, 12:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore	47 min
Nov 3, 1:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell	41 min
Nov 3, 1:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	47 min
Nov 3, 2:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa	48 min
Nov 3, 3:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	37 min
Nov 3, 4:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa, Wagoner	55 min
Nov 3, 4:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Rogers	58 min
Nov 3, 4:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers	64 min
Nov 3, 4:49 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore	4 hr
Nov 3, 5:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware, Mayes	65 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.