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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 1, 1995Pawnee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1995, 1:01 AM CDT for Pawnee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 1995, 1:01 AM CDT (06:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 1995, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Pawnee County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 137 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: 474 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1545 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 010602 RRA
SVRTUL
OKC117-010630-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
101 AM CDT THU JUN 1 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  130 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...EASTERN PAWNEE COUNTY
 
AT 100 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
NEAR HALLET. IT WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. WESTPORT AND KEYSTONE LAKE
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
 
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED
IN THE WARNED AREA.
 
DURING THE STORM MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM LIGHTNING DO NOT USE THE TELEPHONE
OR HAND HELD ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES...UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY.
MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR WATER ON ROADWAYS AND NEVER
DRIVE ONTO A FLOODED ROAD.
 
KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION 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 31, 8:59 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 31, 8:59 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
900 PM CDT WED MAY 31 1995

PESKY UPPER LOW CONTINUES TO SPIN AWAY OVER NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ON 4 KM IR LOOP THIS EVENING.  12Z
MODELS SHOWED IT MOVING EVER SO SLOWLY TO OUR EAST AND GAVE SOME
HOPE THE RAINY WEATHER MIGHT END.  HOWEVER...IN THE MEAN TIME THE
LATEST BATCH OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT HAS PRODUCED SEVERE WEATHER IN
NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA THIS EVENING APPEARS TO BE WINDING DOWN SOME.
THUS...WILL NOT UP POPS IN THE PATH OF THIS SMALL CLUSTER.  HAVE
KEPT POPS FOR TONIGHT ELSEWHERE EVEN THOUGH KTLX RADAR DOES NOT
SHOW MUCH SINCE THE 12Z NGM SHOWS ANOTHER SPOKE OF PIVA FOR LATE
TONIGHT AND TOMORROW MORNING.  PERHAPS THIS SPOKE HAS SOMETHING
TO DO WITH THE ACTIVITY OVER SOUTHEAST WYOMING AND EASTERN
COLORADO AND THEN AGAIN MAYBE NOT.  LIKE CURRENT POPS IN THE CHC
CATEGORY DUE TO THE UNCERTAINTY.  ONLY REAL CHANGES TO ZONES WERE
TO UP LOWS DUE TO THE HIGHER DEW POINTS AND THE POTENTIAL FOR
CLOUDS IN THE AREA.  ALSO CHANGED SKY CONDITION TO PARTLY CLOUDY
DUE TO THE SPARSITY OF CLOUDS IN THE AREA OUTSIDE OF THE
THUNDERSTORMS.

.TUL...NONE.

ABBAS

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 31, 7:55 PM CDT, 5 hours 6 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
755 PM CDT WED MAY 31 1995

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

720  PM         3 MI N OF CLEVELAND     OK   .75 INCH HAIL
05/31/95          OSAGE

745 PM          1 MI W PRUE             OK   1.0 INCH HAIL
05/31/95          OSAGE

750 PM            WESTPORT              OK   1.0 INCH HAIL
05/31/95          PAWNEE

Local storm report, May 31, 8:05 PM CDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
805 PM CDT WED MAY 31 1995

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

803  PM         2 MI N SAND SPRINGS     OK   1.25 INCH HAIL
05/31/95          OSAGE

Local storm report, May 31, 8:06 PM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
805 PM CDT WED MAY 31 1995

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

803  PM         2 MI N SAND SPRINGS     OK   1.25 INCH HAIL
05/31/95          OSAGE

Local storm report, May 31, 10:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
1016 PM CDT WED MAY 31 1995

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

722 PM          1 MI N OF OSAGE         OK   1.25 INCH HAIL
05/31/95        OSAGE

829  PM         SAND SPRINGS            OK   .88 INCH HAIL
05/31/95        TULSA

Local storm report, May 31, 10:21 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
1016 PM CDT WED MAY 31 1995

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

722 PM          1 MI N OF OSA~GE         OK   1.25 INCH HAIL
05/31/95        OSAGE

829  PM         SAND SPRINGS            OK   .88 INCH HAIL
05/31/95        TULSA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Tulsa	64 min
May 31, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pawnee	34 min
May 31, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa	51 min
Jun 1, 12:40 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Osage	3 hr
Jun 1, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	40 min
Jun 1, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg	43 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.