Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1995, 9:22 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 1995, 9:22 PM CDT (02:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1995, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherokee County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 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
- 464 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 648 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 080222 SVRTUL OKC021-035-097-080330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 922 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA ...CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...CRAIG COUNTY...MAYES COUNTY AT 920 PM A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR SOUTH COFFEYVILLE TO CLAREMORE TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF EUFAULA. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. DAMAGE HAS BEEN REPORTED IN TULSA FROM THESE STORMS. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES IN THE WARNED AREA. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. DAMAGING WINDS WITH GUSTS UP TO 70 MPH WILL OCCUR WITH THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING OR HOME. STAY AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME YOU SHOULD MOVE TO A MORE SUBSTANTIAL STRUCTURE IF ONE IS NEARBY.
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 May 7, 9:01 PM CDT, 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 7, 9:01 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 845 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 1995 LN OF SVR STORMS JUST ENTERING WESTERN PART OF FA...EXTENDS WELL SOUTH INTO TX. OUN SOUNDING CONTAINED OVER 2500 J/KG CAPE AND CLOSE TO 200 M/S/S...AND MESONET OBS SHOW SFC DEWPT IN LOWER 70S AHEAD OF STORMS IN E OK. WINDS VEER TO JUST TO THE WEST BEHIND SQUALL LINE WITH DWPTS DROPING INTO UPPER 50S...BUT WINDS OVER WESTERN OK HAVE BACKED TO SOUTH AHEAD OF REAL DRYLINE STILL OVER EASTERN PART OF TX PH. EXPECT SQUALL LN TO CONT TO DVLP EASTWARD INTO FA DURING THE REST OF THE NIGHT AS MID LVL CAA MOVES OVR HIGHER DWPTS. MOST OF NE OK HAS ALREADY RECEIVED FROM 1 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN AND ADDITIONAL RAINS CUD CAUSE MAJOR FLOODING PROBLEMS. MANY RIVERS IN NE OK NEAR OR OVR BANKFULL SO BACKWATER WILL ADD TO FLASH FLOOD POTENTIAL. FLASH FLOOD GUIDENCE ALSO LOW OVR REST OF FA...AND FROM 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN MAY FALL ELSEWHERE THROUGH EARLY MONDAY MORNING. WILL KEEP FFA GOING AS IN PREV FCST. NO NEW MODEL DATA TO LUK AT...BUT APPEARS LLVL MOIST SHUD SHALLOW OUT QUICKLY MONDAY MORNING FROM WEST TO EAST. BEST CHC FOR LINGERING MORNING TRW IN SE OK AND W ARK. WILL UP POPS TO CLOSE TO 100% OVR ALL OF FA REST OF TONIGHT. PCP SHUD TAPER AFTER MIDNIGHT FROM W TO E...BUT WILL LEAVE SLGT CHC IN WRN ZNS FOR MORNING RW AND 40-50% POPS IN EASTERN ZNS ON MONDAY. /13 .TUL...FFA OKZ054>077-ARZ001-002-010-011-019-0029 TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 7, 7:14 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
OKZ054-059-060-064-080100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 715 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 1995 ...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE BACK INTO PARTS OF OSAGE...PAWNEE AND CREEK COUNTIES BY 8PM... AT 710PM...RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST THROUGH KAY...NOBLE AND PAYNE COUNTIES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH AND MAY CONTAIN LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. THEY MAY MOVE ~INTO THE BURBANK...FAIRFAX...PAWNEE AND DRUMRIGHT AREAS. PEOPLE IN THOSE AREAS SHOULD LISTEN FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS BETWEEN 730PM AND 8PM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THIS AREA UNTIL MIDNIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Mayes | 68 min |
| May 7, 10:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 2 hr |
| May 7, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 48 min |
| May 7, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 40 min |
| May 7, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer | 51 min |
| May 8, 12:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 64 min |
Nearby
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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.