Tornado Warning 47, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

Jul 24, 1994, 4:48 PM CDT (21:48 UTC)

Expired

Jul 24, 1994, 5:15 PM CDT

In force

27 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties

County Craig County, OK

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 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.

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TTAA00 KTUL 242149
TORTUL
OKC035-242215-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
448 PM CDT SUN JUL 24 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...SOUTHERN CRAIG COUNTY
 
AT 446 PM...THE NOWATA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE
GROUND ABOUT 15 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF VINITA. THE STORM PRODUCING THE
TORNADO WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
 
 
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.
 
WATCH FOR SIGNS OF DEVELOPING STORMS.  LARGE HAILSTONES AND UNUSUALLY
LOW SWIRLING CLOUDS ARE MANY TIMES SEEN NEAR DEVELOPING TORNADOES.
STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND TORNADOES OFTEN PRODUCE A LOUD ROARING
SOUND THAT CAN BE HEARD IN THE VICINITY OF STORMS. FREQUENT AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING OCCURS WITH MOST SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
 
KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.
 
 
 
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NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jul 24, 3:49 PM CDT, 59 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
345 PM CDT SUN JUL 24 1994

OK MESONET DATA SHOWS SFC FRONT EXTENDING FROM MIAMI TO CLAREMORE TO
TULSA TO DRUMRIGHT TO EDMOND TO REYDON. ERN OK PORTION OF BOUNDARY HAS
REMAINED NEARLY STATIONARY THROUGHOUT THE DAY WHILE WRN OK PORTION HAS
SAGGED SLOWLY SOUTH. DEWPOINTS IN THE UPPER 70S ARE POOLED JUST NORTH
OF THE BOUNDARY IN NE OK BUT EXTENSIVE CIRRUS SHIELD HAS LIMITED SFC
HEATING IN THIS AREA AND HAS NOT ALLOWED THE CAP TO BE BROKEN THUS FAR.

STILL ANTICIPATE THAT TSTMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG OR JUST NORTH OF THE
FRONT DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS WITH SOME OF THE STORMS LIKELY BECOMING
SEVERE. EVEN IF STORMS FAIL TO DEVELOP...NEARLY SOLID AREA OF LIGHT TO
MODERATE RAIN IN SOUTH CENTRAL KS SHOULD MOVE INTO NE OK THIS EVENING
SO WILL KEEP LIKELY POPS IN NE OK TONIGHT WITH LOWER POPS TO THE SOUTH.

SATELLITE LOOPS AND PROFILER VORTICITY GRAPHIC 5MV SUPPORTS THE NGM ON
THE VORT MAX CURRENTLY IN NRN KS WITH THE ETA MUCH TOO STRONG AND SLOW.
EXTRAPOLATION FROM WATER VAPOR LOOPS INDICATES THAT THE NGM 00Z
POSITION OF THE VORT MAX IN SW MO WILL BE QUITE CLOSE.

ETA DRIVES SFC FRONT MUCH FARTHER SOUTH THAN EITHER THE NGM OR AVN
PROBABLY DUE TO ITS STRONGER SHORTWAVE. HOWEVER IN THIS INSTANCE FEEL
THAT THE ETA MAY BE MOST CORRECT FOR THE WRONG REASON AS CONVECTION
WHICH DEVELOPS NEAR THE FRONT WILL LIKELY CAUSE THE FRONT TO SAG SOUTH
INTO SE OK.

MODELS CANNOT AGREE ON TIMING OF WEAK SHORTWAVES IN THE LATER PERIODS
AND POSITIONING OF SFC FRONT IS ALSO NOT CERTAIN ATTM. SCATTERED TSTMS
LIKELY THROUGHOUT THE FCST PERIOD NEAR AND NORTH OF THE FRONTAL
BOUNDARY BUT HARD TO PINPOINT MOST LIKELY AREA TO SEE STORMS IN ERN OK.
THUS WILL KEEP ALL POPS AT 40% IN THE LATER PERIODS. AM COUNTING ON THE
NGM AND AVN MODELS BEING MOST CORRECT WITH THE 850 MB FLOW...OTHERWISE
POPS IN NE OK MAY BE OVERDONE.

NGM MOS TEMPS SEEM REASONABLE WITH COOLER TEMPS 2IN NE OK WHERE CLOUD
COVER WILL BE GREATEST. WILL ADJUST MIN TEMPS DOWN THOUGH IN NE OK DUE
TO RAIN COOLED AIR.

TUL 70/88/70/88/70  6444    MLC 72/92/72/91/72  4444
BVO 68/87/68/87/68  6444    IDB 72/93/72/93/72  3444

.TUL...NONE.

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