Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Apr 2, 1994, 7:30 PM CST for Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 1994, 7:30 PM CST (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 1994, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pittsburg County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 154 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1249 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1451 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 030132 TORTUL OKC121-030200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 730 PM CST (830 PM CDT) SAT APR 2 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CST (900 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...SOUTHERN PITTSBURG COUNTY AT 728 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN TULSA INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF KIOWA MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN SAVANNA AND KIOWA SHOULD GO TO A SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY!!! THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET IN A GROUND DEPRESSION. KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 6:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 56 min |
| Apr 2, 6:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 50 min |
| Apr 2, 6:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 48 min |
| Apr 2, 7:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 51 min |
| Apr 2, 7:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 63 min |
| Apr 2, 8:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg | 48 min |
| Apr 2, 8:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 43 min |
| Apr 2, 8:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 57 min |
| Apr 2, 8:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 50 min |
| Apr 2, 8:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer | 47 min |
| Apr 2, 10:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 65 min |
| Apr 2, 10:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee | 42 min |
| Apr 2, 10:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 30 min |
| Apr 2, 10:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 46 min |
| Apr 2, 10:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 39 min |
| Apr 2, 11:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 56 min |
| Apr 2, 11:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 40 min |
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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.