Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1995, 7:39 AM CDT for Haskell County, LeFlore County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1995, 7:39 AM CDT (12:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1995, 8:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Haskell County, OK, LeFlore County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 854 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1317 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 021240 RRA SVRTUL OKC061-079-021330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 739 AM CDT FRI JUN 2 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...NORTHEASTERN HASKELL COUNTY...NORTHERN LE FLORE COUNTY AT 737 AM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TAMAHA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. COWINGTON AND SPIRO ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER NORTHEAST HASKELL COUNTY WHICH COULD ALSO BECOME SEVERE. VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH THESE STORMS COULD LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. 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 Jun 2, 4:03 AM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 4:03 AM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
400 AM CDT FRI JUN 2 1995
PTCHY MID LVL CLDS SWINGING THRU NE OK THIS MRNG. HV EVEN MANAGED
TO GENERATE A FEW ISOLD RW/TRW PAST HR OR SO IN CYCLNC MID LVL FLOW
ARND EXITNG TROF. DID NOT PLAN ON ANY POPS TDA...BUT WL WATCH TILL
FCST TIME AND BREAK AWAY A FEW ZNS FOR ISOLD MRNG SHWRS IF NEED BE.
OTHRWS...UPR RDG WL BLD OVR THE AREA TDA AS TROF THAT HS DRIFTED
ACRS THE PLNS THE PAST FEW DAYS CONTS TO LIFT AWAY FRM THE AREA.
MAY AGN SEE ISOLD DVLPMNT THIS AFTN...BUT WL KEEP POPS BELOW 20 PCT.
NXT UPR TROF NOW INTO THE SWRN STATES WL MOV ACRS THE SRN RCKYS BY
SAT WITH NGM A LTL FASTER THAN OTHR MDLS. MAIN FOCUS FOR PRECIP
WL BE OFF TO THE WEST AS DRYLN BCMS BTR ESTABLISHED AND STG LLVL
JET SETS UP TNGT OVR PNHNDLS AND FAR WRN OK. WL LV FCST FOR TNGT
DRY FOR NOW...THEN ADD 20-30 PCT POPS ACRS THE AREA ON SAT. TEMPS
WL CONT TO RUN NR NORM NXT FEW DNAYS WHICH IS GENRLLY IN LINE WITH
GUID.
PRELIM NUMBERS: TUL 82/65/83 113 BVO 83/62/83 113
FSM 84/64/85 112 FYV 81/61/83 112
MLC 86/65/85 113 IDB 86/64/86 112
...04...
.TUL...NONE.In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 5:59 AM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-029-OKZ054>077-021800- EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 600 AM CDT FRI JUN 02 1995 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TODAY OR TONIGHT ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. DAYTIME HEATING WILL LEAD TO A MODERATELY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE OVER EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. HOWEVER... LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL BE QUITE SHALLOW...AND LOW LEVEL WINDFIELDS WILL BE WEAK. IN ADDITION... NO UPPER LEVEL WEATHER FEATURES ARE EXPECTED OVER THE AREA TO PRODUCE THUNDERSTORMS. THE UPPER LEVEL WEATHER SYSTEM WHICH HELPED PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA DURING THE PAST FEW DAYS WILL MOVE NORTHEASTWARD AWAY FROM OKLAHOMA AND ARKANSAS TODAY AND TONIGHT. DAYTIME HEATING MAY RESULT IN AN ISOLATED AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORM ...MAINLY OVER SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA OR NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS. NO ORGANIZED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMxENT...OR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT...IS ANTICIPATED. THE NEXT THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 1 PM.
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 6:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-029-OKZ054>077-021800- EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 600 AM CDT FRI JUN 02 1995 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TODAY OR TONIGHT ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. DAYTIME HEATING WILL LEAD TO A MODERATELY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE OVER EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. HOWEVER... LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL BE QUITE SHALLOW...AND LOW LEVEL WINDFIELDS WILL BE WEAK. IN ADDITION... NO UPPER LEVEL WEATHER FEATURES ARE EXPECTED OVER THE AREA TO PRODUCE THUNDERSTORMS. THE UPPER LEVEL WEATHER SYSTEM WHICH HELPED PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA DURING THE PAST FEW DAYS WILL MOVE NORTHEASTWARD AWAY FROM OKLAHOMA AND ARKANSAS TODAY AND TONIGHT. DAYTIME HEATING MAY RESULT IN AN ISOLATED AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORM ...MAINLY OVER SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA OR NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS. NO ORGANIZED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT...OR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT...IS ANTICIPATED. THE NEXT THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 1 PM.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer | 52 min |
| Jun 2, 3:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 7:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 9:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 51 min |
| Jun 2, 9:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 40 min |
| Jun 2, 10:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 42 min |
| Jun 2, 12:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer | 40 min |
| Jun 2, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore | 45 min |
| Jun 2, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 34 min |
| Jun 2, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 69 min |
| Jun 2, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 54 min |
| Jun 2, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee, Tulsa | 61 min |
| Jun 2, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 33 min |
| Jun 2, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 45 min |
| Jun 2, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 61 min |
| Jun 2, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Mayes | 45 min |
| Jun 2, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 42 min |
| Jun 2, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 49 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.