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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 17, 1995Pittsburg County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1995, 8:08 PM CDT for Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 17, 1995, 8:08 PM CDT (01:08 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 1995, 8:39 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Pittsburg County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3409 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 180109
SVRTUL
OKC077-121-180200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
808 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...WESTERN LATIMER COUNTY...EASTERN PITTSBURG COUNTY
 
AT 808 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR BLANCO. MOVEMENT
WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. HARTSHORNE AND HAILEYVILLE ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
 
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED
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.
 
KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.
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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, 2:56 PM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 2:56 PM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
250 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

SATL PICS INDCT CLRG OVR A LRG PART OF SWRN OK.  XPCT TSTMS TO
DVLP AND INTNSFY RPDLY AS THERMAL GRAD TIGHTENS AND UPR SYS CONTS
TO APRCH.  SVR WX THREAT WELL DISCD IN SELS OTLK AND WL NOT
ELABORATE.  HVY RAINFALL THREAT ACRS XTRM NRN PTNS OF FA WHERE A
SFC BNDRY IS XPCTD TO LINGER TNGT.  CONSDRD AN FFA...BUT BLV RPDLY
MOVG TSTMS WL DCRS CHCS FOR FL FLDG OVRNGT.

MDLS SIMILAR IN DPCTG ACTVTY TO DMNSH FM THE WEST WITH TSTMS PRBLY
MOVG EAST OF EOK SHRTLY AFT MIDN.  MAY SEE SOME PARTIAL CLRG...BUT
CLDS SHUD WRAP BACK ARND INTO EOK BY MRNG.  WRAPARND CLDS AND COOL
AIR ADVCTN THURS SHUD KEEP TEMPS BLO NGM MOS MAXES...SPCLY IN NWRN
AR.  LT IN THE DAY SOME CLRG XPCTD FM THE WEST OR SW.  CLRG SKIES
AND DRIER AIR SHUD ALLOW MINS TO FALL INTO THE 40S OVR MUCH OF NERN
OK AND NWRN AR THURS NGT.  MSTLY SUNNY SKIES XPCTD TO RTRN FRIt.

PRELIMS
TUL 57/65/49/75 8100
FSM 60/68/51/75 7200
MLC 61/71/51/76 7100
BVO 54/63/48/74 8100
FYV 59/65/47/73 9200
IDB 62/74/52/77 6200
BYV 58/64/46/72 9200

..11..

.TUL...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 17, 5:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
532 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0527 PM    WYNONA              X      OK   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/17/95   OSAGE

0513 PM    JUST SOUTH OF WYNONA      OK   WIND DAMAGE
05/17/95   OSAGE                          CAR BLOWN OFF HWY INTO DITCH
                                          ESTIMATED 80-100 MPH WIND

Local storm report, May 17, 6:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
608 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0445 PM    PAWNEE                    OK   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/17/95   PAWNEE

0445 PM    PAWNEE                    OK   WIND DAMAGE
05/17/95   PAWNEE                         LARGE TREE UPROOTED

0552 PM    BIXBY                     OK   0.88 INCH HAIL
05/17/95   TULSA

0600 PM    2 SW OF ONETA             OK   0.88 INCH HAIL
05/17/95   WAGONER

Local storm report, May 17, 6:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
634 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0600 PM    DEWEY              J       OK   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/17/95   WASHINGTON

0615 PM    5 S BVO                   OK   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/17/95   WASHINGTON

0615 PM    5 S BVO                   OK   70 MPH WINDS
05/17/95   WASHINGTON

Local storm report, May 17, 7:11 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
710 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0635 PM    5 E INOLA                 OK   0.88 INCH HAIL
05/17/95   ROGERS

0635 PM    5 E INOLA                 OK   70 MPH WIND GUST
05/17/95   ROGERS

0645 PM    2E CHOUTEAU               OK   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/17/95   MAYES

Local storm report, May 17, 7:34 PM CDT, 34 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
732 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0610 PM    BROKEN ARROW              OK   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/17/95   TULSA

Special weather statement, May 17, 8:00 PM CDT, 8 minutes before

OKZ054>076-180145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
759 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

...STRONG STORMS MOVING INTO PITTSBURG COUNTY...

...TORNADO WATCH FOR PARTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA UNTIL 10 PM...

AT 758 PM...RADAR IN TULSA INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG STORMS MOVING
INTO PITTSBURG COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE NEAR BLANCO AND PITTSBURG AND
WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH
MAY ACCOMPANY THIS STORM AS IT MOVES TOWARD HAILEYVILLE.

THERE WAS ALSO AN ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS EXTREME
NORTHERN OSAGE COUNTY. AT 758 PM...RADAR INDICATED THAT THIS STORM WAS
8 MILES NORTH OF FORAKER. PEA SIZE HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THIS STOJRM AS IT
MOVES EAST AT 35 MPH TOWARD HULAH LAKE.

STORM WARNINGS MAY BE REQUIRED IN THESE AREAS IF THE STORMS INTENSIFY.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	41 min
May 17, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer	52 min
May 17, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore	42 min
May 17, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	42 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.