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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 442, NWS Tulsa, OK

November 3, 1994Craig County, Nowata County, Rogers County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 3, 1994, 8:27 PM CST for Craig County, Nowata County, Rogers County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 3, 1994, 8:27 PM CST (02:27 UTC)
Expired: Nov 3, 1994, 9:30 PM CST
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Craig County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Rogers County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 232 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -136 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 847 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 265 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 294 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 3, 4:12 PM CST, 4 hours 15 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

Special weather statement, Nov 3, 3:55 PM CST, 4 hours 32 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, 2 hours 47 minutes before

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Local storm report, Nov 3, 5:41 PM CST, 2 hours 46 minutes before

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Local storm report, Nov 3, 5:50 PM CST, 2 hours 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, Nov 3, 6:16 PM CST, 2 hours 11 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
616 PM CST THU NOV 3 1994

TIME (CST)     COUNTY/STATE     EVENT

615 PM         MAYES/OK         NICKEL SIZE HAIL 1 MILE NORTH OF PRYOR

Local storm report, Nov 3, 7:07 PM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
707 PM CST THU NOV 3 1994

TIME (CST)     COUNTY/STATE     EVENT

620 PM         TULSA/OK         DIME SIZE HAIL 1 MILE EAST OF OWASSO

700 PM        LE FLORE/OK       DIME SIZE HAIL IN HEAVENER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 3, 6:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers	58 min
Nov 3, 6:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	20 min
Nov 3, 6:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	50 min
Nov 3, 8:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	45 min
Nov 3, 8:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa	48 min
Nov 3, 8:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	34 min
Nov 3, 9:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig	50 min
Nov 3, 9:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Ottawa	62 min
Nov 3, 9:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	46 min
Nov 4, 4:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Tulsa	45 min
Nov 4, 5:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa	44 min
Nov 4, 6:59 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Wagoner	61 min
Nov 4, 7:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Muskogee, Pittsburg	67 min
Nov 4, 12:52 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	6 hr
Nov 3, 7:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	41 min
Nov 3, 8:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	52 min
Nov 4, 11:42 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Crawford	7 hr
Nov 4, 2:17 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Sebastian	4 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.