Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 200, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1995, 2:52 AM CDT for Okfuskee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1995, 2:52 AM CDT (07:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1995, 3:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Okfuskee County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 2206 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 902 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 356 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.6
- Supercell composite
- 11.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 040753 RRA SVRTUL OKC107-040845- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 252 AM CDT SUN JUN 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA ...OKFUSKEE COUNTY AT 252 AM RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO WESTERN OKFUSKEE COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH INTO OKFUSKEE COUNTY. OKEMAH IS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM. 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. 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.
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 3, 9:01 PM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 9:01 PM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 900 PM CDT SAT JUN 3 1995 CLUSTER OF TRW THAT DVLPD OVR EAST CNTRL OK THIS EVE HAS WEAKEND INTO RW- AND MOVED INTO NW AR. BIG STORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVR TEX PH AND WRN OK...WITH SVRL SUPERCELLS OCCURRING ATTM. ONE BIG STORM WAS 30W OKC AT 0145Z AND WAS MOVG NE AT ARND 20 KTS. CONDITIONS APPR FAVBL FOR THE STORMS IN WRN OK TO HOLD TOGETHER AS THEY MOVE NE TONITE. IF THE SUPERCELL W OF OKC HOLDS TOGETHER...EXTRAPOLATION WOULD PUT IT INTO THE ZNS NW OF TUL JUST BEFORE 06Z. IF THE STORM MAKES A HARD RIGHT TURN...THEN IT COULD MOVE INTO THE TUL AREA BY 07Z. FOR UPDAT...WL RAISE POPS IN THE ZONES NW OF TUL I^N ANTICIPATION OF SOME OF THE CONVECTION TO THE WEST SPRDG NE TONITE. MOST OF SE OK IS CAPPED...SO WL LEAVE ONLY A 20 PCT CHC OF AN ELEVATED STORM TONITE. REST OF AFTN PKG WL NOT BE CHANGED. .TUL...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 1:37 AM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
OKZ054-059-064-065-040715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 137 AM CDT SUN JUN 4 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM FOR OKFUSKEE...CREEK AND PAWNEE COUNTIES... AT 135 AM...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN TULSA SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL AND NORTHERN OKLAHOMA. THE EASTERN EDGE OF THIS LARGE RAIN AREA EXTENDED FROM PAWHUSKA TO SHAMROCK TO NORMAN. THIS RAIN AREA WAS SLOWLY SPREADING EASTWARD...AND WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA EARLY THIS MORNING. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WILL MOVE INTO PAWNEE COUNTY BEFORE 200 AM. RAINFALL RATES OF OVER 1 INCH PER HOUR WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE MARAMEC AND PAWNEE AREAS EARLY THIS MORNING. SOME STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA EARLY THIS MORNING. SEVERE WEATHER HAS ALREADY BEEN WIDESPREAD EARLIER TONIGHT OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 1:38 AM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
OKZ054-059-064-065-040715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 137 AM CDT SUN JUN 4 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM FOR OKFUSKEE...CREEK AND PAWNEE COUNTIES... AT 135 AM...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN TULSA SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL AND NORTHERN OKLAHOMA. THE EASTERN EDGE OF THIS LARGE RAIN AREA EXTENDED FROM PAWHUSKA TO SHAMROCK TO NORMAN. THIS RAIN AREA WAS SLOWLY SPREADING EASTWARD...AND WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA EARLY THIS MORNING. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WILL MOVE INTO PAWNEE COUNTY BEFORE 200 AM. RAINFALL RATES OF OVER 1 INCH PER HOUR WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE MARAMEC AND PAWNEE AREAS EARLY THIS MORNING. SOME STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA EARLY THIS MORNING. SEVERE WEATHER HAS ALREADY BEEN WIDESPREAD EARLIER TONIGHT OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 2:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Pawnee | 43 min |
| Jun 4, 4:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 41 min |
| Jun 4, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 44 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.