Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 153, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1995, 7:54 PM CDT for LeFlore County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 1995, 7:54 PM CDT (00:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1995, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County LeFlore County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 525 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 250055 SVRTUL OKC079-250145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 754 PM CDT WED MAY 24 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...SOUTHERN LE FLORE COUNTY AT 754 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR HEAVNER TO MUSE. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. HEAVNER AND PAGE ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. KEEP TUNED TO THIS 8STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER 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 May 24, 3:58 PM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 3:58 PM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 355 PM CDT WED MAY 24 1995 IN GEN...MDL SOLNS ARE SIMILAR. HWVR...FOR SML SCALE DETAILS WHICH ARE IMPORTANT IN THIS PTRN...THERE ARE DIFFERENCES. ETA SOLN THROWN OUT BECAUSE 00HR ANALYS ESP AT H7...SHWS PROBLEMS SUCH AS STRANGE H7 HGT MINIMUM OVR SRN NBRSKA...AND ITS WK S/W TROFS/RDGS OUT OF PHASE WITH NGM. WL FOLLOW AVN...WHICH IS SIMILAR BUT SLGTLY SLOWR THAN NGM. PRFLR NTWRK SHOWS H7 TROF MVG ACRS NE TX TO SRN AR...AS INDCTD BY ECTRL TX PRFLR...AND HIER LVL S/W APRCHG TX/OK PNDLS. SFC FNT OVR NE OK HASNT MOVD MUCH...MAY SAG SE AND STALL E TO W OVR SRN OK LATE TNGT. 2 CHCS FOR RW/TRW TNGT...FIRST DURG EVNG FROM ACTVTY CRNTLY DVLPG...AND AGAIN TWRD DAWN AS WAA/ISEN LIFT GETS GOING ALNG/N OF DVLPG SRN OK WRMFNT. WL FCST SCTD RW/TRW TNGT... ONLY 40 OR 50 POPS WITH S/W RDG MOVG OVR OK/KS TNGT. CUD BE ISOD ELEV TRW WITH HVY RN LEADG TO MINOR STREET FLDG...BUT NO FFA NEEDED ATTM. FOR THURS...WAA/ISEN LIFT ALNG/N OF SRN OK WRMFNT COMBINED WITH APRCHG S/W TROF LEADS ME TO GO WITH 30 TO 40 POPS FOR SCTD SHWRS. WITH FNT STAYG OVR SRN OK...TEMPS WL STRUGGLE UPWARD. WL GO WITH HI TMPS NR MOS SE OK...BUT A LTL BLO MOS NE/ECTRL OK AND NW AR. THURS NGT LOOKS INTRSTG. MDLS SUGGEST WRMFNT MOVS/RDVLPS NWD ACRS OK AS SFC LOW DVLPS OVR TX/OK PNDLS. LLJ IS FCST TO BE PERPENDICULAR TO WRMFNT...LEADING TO STG THETA-E ADVCTN ALNG/ N OF BDRY. AVN SUGGESTS STG H7 S/W MOVES ACRS WRN OK/KS DURG NGT...SLGTLY LATR THAN NGM. WDSPRD CNVCTN...PSBLY IN FORM OF COMPLEX...SHUD DVLP AND MOVE ALNG WRMFNT...WHEREVER IT LIES. QSTN IS...OF COURSE...WL WRMFNT REMAIN IN OK...OR RDVLP OVR SRN KS. CRNT THINKG IS OVR NRN OK JUST S OF NGM/AVN POSN...SO WL GO WITH GOOD CHANCE OF RW/TRW TMRW NGT NRN ZNS...LWR POPS CTRL/SRN ZNS. WL NOT GO WITH HIER POPS YET SINCE MORE NWD LOC OF WRMFNT WL REDUCE CHCS FOR WDSPRD RNFL ACRS FCST AREA. TEMPS SHUDNT FALL TOO MUCH WITH CLDNSS AND WAA...MOS ACTUALLY LOOKS OKAY. FOR FRI...MESS HEADS ACRS ERN KS/MO...ERN OK/NW AR MAY SEE BRK IN ACTVTY DURG DAY...MAYBE EVEN P CLDY SKIES SRN ZNS...AS WE AWAIT NXT S/W TO ROTATE TWRD FCST AREA. DIMINISHING RW/TRW DURG MRNG...AND PSBLTY OF SCTD AFTN TRW WRN ZNS...LEADS ME TO CONT 30 TO 40 POPS ACRS MOST OF AREA. TEMPS WL DEPEND ON CLD COVER...WL GO UPR 70S TO ARND 80...WITH L/M 80S SE ZNS. ANOTHR RND OF TRW PSBL FRI NGT INTO SAT AS MAIN SYS WANTS TO BE A ZSLOW MOVER. PW PRELIM NUMBERS... TUL 58/72 65/79 4354 MLC 62/77 66/83 4344 FYV 59/74 62/79 4243 FSM 63/79 65/82 4243 BVO 55/71 64/79 4454 IDB 68/81 67/84 4232 .TUL...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 24, 6:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
625 PM CDT WED MAY 24 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
555 PM SPIRO OK 0.75 INCH HAIL.
05/24/95 LEFLORELocal storm report, May 24, 7:16 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
715 PM CDT WED MAY 24 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
635 PM COMMERCE
OK 0.75 INCH HAIL.
05/23/95 OTTAWALocal storm report, May 24, 7:18 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
717 PM CDT WED MAY 24 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
655 PM JENNY LIND ( AR 0.75 INCH HAIL.
05/24/95 SEBASTIANNearby
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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.