Tornado Warning 44, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

Jul 7, 1994, 8:25 PM CDT (01:25 UTC)

Expired

Jul 7, 1994, 9:15 PM CDT

In force

50 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties

County Osage County, OK

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 080126
TORTUL
OKC113-080215-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
825 PM CDT THU JUL 7 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...NORTHERN OSAGE COUNTY
 
AT 8 24 PM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN TULSA INDICATED A
DEVELOPING TORNADO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF PAWHUSKA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE
NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
 
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.

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jul 7, 4:32 PM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
430 PM CDT THU JUL 7 1994

MESONET SHOWS OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM THIS MORNINGS THUNDERSTORMS IN
KANSAS LIES ACROSS THE EXTREME NORTHWEST PART OF THE FORECAST AREA OR
ROUGHLY FROM BVO-END.  SO FAR WARM MID LEVEL TEMPERATURES HAVE KEPT A
LID ON THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT.  HELP IN BREAKING CAP MAY OCCUR WITH
CONTINUED HEATING THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING BUT WILL LIKELY GET
ITS BIGGEST BOOST WHEN INFLUENCE OF UPPER LOW CURRENTLY SEEN SPINNING
TOWARD NORTHEAST COLORADO AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA ARRIVES.  WIND
MAX/DARKENING IN WATER VAPOR SOUTHEAST OF LOW MOVING INTO NORTHWEST
OKLAHOMA MAY BE THE NEEDED INFLUENCE.  EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP
THIS EVENING OVER THE NORTH AND THEN TO SAG SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA
TAKING THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY/COLD FRONT WITH THEM.  LI'S OF -8 TO -10
FROM ADAP REFLECT LARGE CAPES OR BUOYANCY FOR SEVERE STORMS AND HAVE
INCLUDED SEVERE STORMS IN FORECAST TO REFLECT THIS.

DUE TO UNCERTAINTY OF MOVEMENT OF FRONT AND TIME OF DEVELOPMENT OF
THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT HAVE KEPT THUNDERSTORMS IN FORECAST ALL DAY
TOMORROW.  DRIER AIR BEHIND THE FRONT SHOULD MAKE IT INTO THE NORTH FOR
A PLEASANT AND COOLER THAN GUIDANCE NIGHT FRIDAY NIGHT.

TUL 68/88/64/88/68 61--   MLC 70/90/66/90/69 551-
IDB 72/92/70/92/72 3532   BVO 66/87/63/87/68 61--

/17

.TUL...NONE.

Tornado Warnings in Oklahoma, 1994Every tornado warning in 1994Tornadoes in 1994

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.