Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 1995, 11:43 PM CDT for Latimer County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 30, 1995, 11:43 PM CDT (04:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 1995, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Latimer County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 588 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 397 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 010442 SVRTUL OKC077-010530- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1143 PM CDT SUN APR 30 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...LATIMER COUNTY AT 1142 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF HARTSHORNE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. WILBURTON IS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHEZR BULLETINS.
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 Apr 30, 9:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 30, 9:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 935 PM CDT SUN APR 30 1995 HV NOT HAD MUCH TIME TO TAKE A LOOK AT 00Z DATA SINCE A FEW STRMS GOT GOING ABT AN HR AGO. BUT QUICK LOOK SEEMS TO SUPPORT PREV FCST. WM FNT APRS TO BE JUST S OF THE RED RVR W/LOTS OF MOISTURE RIDING OVR IT. H85 DW PTS ARE ABV 10C AND PRECIP WATER ABV 1.25 IN ACRS NRN TX AND OK AT 00Z. ALSO MID LVL LAPSE RATES ARE FAIRLY STEEP. LLJ SHLD CONT TO STRENGTHEN AS GOOD AMPLITUDE S/W MVS OUT OF THE ROCKIES. RADAR AND SAT LOOPS SEEMS TO INDICATE THAT AREAL COVERAGE OF RW/TRW ARE INCRSG SO CAT POPS LOOK GOOD. W/PLENTY OF MOISTURE AND FORCING COMBINED W/ALREADY SATURATED GROUND AND LO FFG VALUES WL CONT W/FFA THRU THE NGT. FOR THE MOST PART WL ONLY MAKE MINOR ADJS TO PREV FCST BASED ON LATEST TRENDS. 07 .TUL...FFA TNGT OK ZNS 54>77 AND AR ZNS 1/2/10/11/19/29.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 30, 5:54 PM CDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before
OKZ067-068-069-071-072-074-075-076-ARZ010-019-029-302330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 554 PM CDT SUN APR 30 1995 SEVERE THUNUDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 271 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR ALL COUNTIES IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA. THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...ADAIR...CHEROKEE...MCINTOSH...MUSKOGEE...SEQUOYAH... WAGONER...HASKELL...LATIMER...AND LE FLORE. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS ALSO BEEN CANCELLED FOR CRAWFORD...BSEBASTIAN...AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS SHIFTED TO THE EAST OF THESE COUNTIES.
Local storm report, Apr 30, 6:04 PM CDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
604 PM CDT SUN APR 30 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
505 PM 2 NW PAGE \ OK 1.00 INCH HAIL AND TREE LIMBS
04/30/95 LE FLORE BLOWN DOWNLocal storm report, Apr 30, 10:59 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
1058 PM CDT SUN APR 30 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
923 PM WEST FORK AR 0.75 INCH HAIL.
04/30/95 WASHINGTONLocal storm report, Apr 30, 11:19 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
1118 PM CDT SUN APR 30 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
825 PM WESTVILLE OK HAIL UP TO 1.00 INCH
04/30/95 ADAIRThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 40 min |
| Apr 30, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 51 min |
| Apr 30, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 40 min |
| May 1, 12:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 48 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.