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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Tulsa, OK

February 26, 1995McIntosh County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 26, 1995, 9:53 PM CST for McIntosh County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 26, 1995, 9:53 PM CST (03:53 UTC)
Expired: Feb 26, 1995, 10:45 PM CST
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County McIntosh County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 1047 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1188 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 151 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 286 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 5.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 270355 RRA
SVRTUL
OKC091-270445-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
953 PM CST SUN FEB 26 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
 
   ...NORTHERN MCINTOSH COUNTY
 
AT 952 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
JUST NORTHEAST OF HENRYETTA MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE TOWN OF
CHECOTAH IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
THIS STORM PRODUCED DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL NORTH OF HENRYETTA ON
HIGHWAY 75 AT 950 PM.
 
 
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED
IN THE WARNED AREA.
 
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.
 
KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.
 
 
 
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 26, 6:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	46 min
Feb 26, 6:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	52 min
Feb 26, 8:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	40 min
Feb 26, 8:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okmulgee	43 min
Feb 26, 8:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	40 min
Feb 26, 8:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	49 min
Feb 26, 9:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	50 min
Feb 26, 9:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee, Okmulgee	45 min
Feb 26, 10:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	41 min
Feb 26, 10:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	45 min
Feb 27, 12:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	51 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.