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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 435, NWS Tulsa, OK

November 3, 1994Delaware County, Mayes County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 3, 1994, 5:40 PM CST for Delaware County, Mayes County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 3, 1994, 5:40 PM CST (23:40 UTC)
Expired: Nov 3, 1994, 6:45 PM CST
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Delaware County, OK, Mayes County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 124 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, 4:12 PM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 3, 4:12 PM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
410 PM CST THU NOV 3 1994

TSTMS FORMING OVER VIRTUALLY ALL OF FA WITH AMPLE MOISTURE IN SERN
ZNS AND SURFACE HEATING IN NERN ZNS.  MORNING SOUNDINGS SHOD LITTLE
CAPPING AND STEEP LAPSE RATES TO WORK WITH.  CD FNT STILL APPRS AHD OF
SCHDL.  NEXRAD SHOS FNT ALRDY INTO NWRN ZNS.  AM WONDERING IF IT WL
STALL OUT OVR NERN ZNS TEMPORARILY TMRW. THUS A BIG ? OF TIMING.  BLV
PCPN WL CONTINUE BHND FNT WITH MAJORITY OF PVA TRACKING ACRS FA EARLY
SAT MORN. ALSO WRAP AROUND MOISTURE MAY AFFECT XTRM NE ZNS SAT AFTN.
ETA IS MDL OF CHOICE FOR UPPR LVLS.  NGM IS TO FAST AND TO FAR N AND
AVN TO SLO. BLV AVN HANDLED BEST AT SFC WI"TH SAGGING OF FNT OVR TX.
ZNS BHND SCHDL DUE TO SVR WX. 21

TUL 63/67 46/56 7652
MLC 69/74 56/62 8742
BVO 56/64 44/52 6652
IDB 68/74 58/60 6852
.TUL...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 3, 3:32 PM CST, 2 hours 8 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
332 PM CST THU NOV 03 1994

TIME (CST)     COUNTY/STATE     EVENT

310 PM         TULSA/OK         DIME AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL IN NORTHEAST
                                COLLINSVILLE

330 PM         ROGERS/OK        DIME SIZE HAIL IN OOLAGAH

Local storm report, Nov 3, 3:33 PM CST, 2 hours 7 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
332 PM CST THU NOV 03 1994

TIME (CST)     COUNTY/STATE     EVENT

310 PM         TULSA/OK         DIME AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL IN NORTHEAST
                  0              COLLINSVILLE

330 PM         ROGERS/OK        DIME SIZE HAIL IN OOLAGAH

Special weather statement, Nov 3, 3:54 PM CST, 1 hour 46 minutes before

OKZ060-061-064-066-067-032300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
354 PM CST THU NOV 3 1994

AT 350 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SHORT LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM CATOOSA
TO BROKEN ARROW TO SLICK IN SOUTHEAST CREEK COUNTY. THIS LINE IS MOVING
TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AROUND 25 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND
SOME SMALL HAIL MAY BE EXPECTED ANYWHERE ALONG THIS LINE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA UNTIL 6 PM.

Special weather statement, Nov 3, 3:55 PM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes before

OKZ060-061-064-066-067-032300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
354 PM CST THU NOV 3 1994

AT 350 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SHORT LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM CATOOSA
TO BROKEN ARROW TO SLICK IN SOUTHEAST CREEK COUNTY. THIS LINE IS MOVING
TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AROUND 25 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND
SOME SMALL HAIL MAY BE EXPECTED ANYWHERE ALONG THIS LINE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA UN^TIL 6 PM.

Local storm report, Nov 3, 5:40 PM CST, 0 minutes before

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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, 8:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee	60 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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1994 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994

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.