Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 136, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1995, 12:12 PM CDT for Muskogee County, Wagoner County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 17, 1995, 12:12 PM CDT (17:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1995, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Muskogee County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 436 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -399 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 918 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 406 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 401 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 17, 9:53 AM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 17, 9:53 AM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 945 AM CDT WED MAY 17 1995 12Z H8 ANALYS CONFIRMS PROGS OF STG LO LVL JET TRANSLATING EWD INTO EOK TDA WITH FWD INDCTG WNDS OF 65 KTS. H7 ANALYS INDCTS CAPPED MID LVLS ABT TO BRK WITH COLD AIR ADVCTN. H5 ANALYS INDCTS STG UPR SYS WITH 95 KT WNDS ROTATING ARND BASE OF TROF. SFC ANALYS INDCTS BNDRY NORTH OF FA. SELS HAS SVR WX THREAT HNDLD WELL WITH CURRENT WTCHS. CONSIDERED FFA BUT BLV HVYST RAINFALL WL CONCNTRT NORTH OF SFC BNDRY WITH EOK/NWAR UNDER MORE OF A SVR WX THREAT THIS AFTN. MAY HV TO CONSIDER FFA FOR NERN OK/NWRN AR TNGT BUT WL WAIT TIL AFTN PCKG. ..11.. .TUL...
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 11:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 34 min |
| May 17, 11:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 42 min |
| May 17, 1:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 28 min |
| May 17, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 55 min |
| May 17, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 35 min |
| May 17, 4:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 52 min |
| May 17, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 52 min |
| May 17, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa, Wagoner | 41 min |
| May 17, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers | 53 min |
| May 17, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 33 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.