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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 207, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 4, 1995Okmulgee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1995, 11:44 PM CDT for Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 4, 1995, 11:44 PM CDT (04:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1995, 12:15 AM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Okmulgee County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 138 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1995-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 181 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1995-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
181 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1607 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
129 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 050445 RRA
SVRTUL
OKC111-050515-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1144 PM CDT SUN JUN 4 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...NORTHEASTERN OKMULGEE COUNTY
 
AT 1143 PM...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM HECTORVILLE TO
MORRIS. THIS LINE WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. BALD HILL IS IN THE
PATH OF THIS STORM. DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR
WINCHESTER.
 
DAMAGING WINDS WITH GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH WILL OCCUR WITH THIS LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS.  IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THES E STORMS SEEK SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY IN THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING OR HOME.  STAY
AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND WINDOWS.  IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME
YOU SHOULD MOVE TO A MORE SUBSTANTIAL STRUCTURE IF ONE IS NEARBY.
 
 
 
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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 Jun 4, 9:11 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 9:11 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
905 PM CDT SUN JUN 4 1995

00Z H8 ANALYS INDCTS A WK TROF HAS DVLPD ACRS SERN OK WITH OUN RAOB
INDCTG SOME TEMPRY DRYING WITH NELY WNDS.  HWVR..BLV THIS IS ONLY
TEMPRY AND DPR MOISTR WL REPLENISH DURG THE NGT.  H5 ANALYS INDCTS
A SHARP UPR TROF ROTATING ARND UPR LO WHICH WL PRBLY ACCLRT THE MCS
OUT OF WRN OK INTO EOK TNGT.  AM CONCERNED ABT PSBLY FL FLDG...BUT(
BLV SLO MOVG SYS WL ACCLRT DURG THE NGT.  AFTN FCST LUKS GOOD AND
WL MAKE ONLY MINOR CHGS IF ANY.

..11..

.TUL...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 4, 7:14 PM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
713 PM CDT SUN JUN 04 1995

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

0700 PM    1 MI EAST OF STIGLER         OK   0.75 INCH HAIL.
06/04/95   HASKELL
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 7:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before
OKZ074-050100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
730 PM CDT SUN JUN 4 1995

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EXPIRES FOR HASKELL COUNTY...

AT 730 PM...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HASKELL COUNTY HAS
EXPIRED.  THERE ARE STILL SOME THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN HASKELL AND
SOUTHEAST MUSKOGEE COUNTIES BUT THEY HAVE WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS.
Local storm report, Jun 4, 7:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
750 PM CDT SUN JUN 04 1995

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

0310 AM    5 E OF WELTY                 OK   60 MPH TSTM GUST.
06/04/95   OKFUSKEE
Local storm report, Jun 4, 7:51 PM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
750 PM CDT SUN JUN 04 1995

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

0310 AM    5 E OF WELTY        4         OK   60 MPH TSTM GUST.
06/04/95   OKFUSKEE
Local storm report, Jun 4, 11:25 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1125 PM CDT SUN JUN 04 1995

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

1122 PM    4 MI EAST OF BEGGS           OK   60 MPH WIND GUST.
06/04/95   OKMULGEE
Local storm report, Jun 4, 11:26 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1125 PM CDT SUN JUN 04 1995

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

1122 PM    4 MI EAST OF BEGGS           OK   60 MPH WIND GUST.
06/04/95   OKMULGEE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 10:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Okfuskee53 min
Jun 4, 10:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Okfuskee50 min
Jun 4, 11:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkmulgee41 min
Jun 4, 11:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSATulsa47 min
Jun 4, 11:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh, Muskogee36 min
Jun 4, 11:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSARogers, Wagoner47 min
Jun 5, 12:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSATulsa17 min
Jun 5, 12:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee63 min
Jun 5, 12:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSARogers, Wagoner65 min
Jun 5, 1:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMayes52 min
Jun 5, 1:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig35 min
Jun 5, 2:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg48 min
Jun 5, 3:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAPittsburg119 min
Jun 5, 3:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALatimer, Pittsburg46 min
Jun 5, 4:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALatimer35 min
Jun 5, 4:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell49 min
Jun 5, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore49 min
Jun 5, 5:01 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSALeFlore119 min
Jun 5, 5:10 PM CDTTornado WarningTSALeFlore35 min
Jun 5, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSASequoyah60 min
Jun 5, 5:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair42 min
Jun 5, 6:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair27 min

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.