Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 216, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1995, 3:29 PM CDT for Latimer County, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 1995, 3:29 PM CDT (20:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1995, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Latimer County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 261 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 695 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 052030 SVRTUL OKC077-121-052115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 329 PM CDT MON JUN 5 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...LATIMER COUNTY...PITTSBURG COUNTY AT 327 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED FROM 5 MILES NORTH OF HAILEYVILLE TO 2 MILES SOUTH OF KIOWA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. GOWEN...HAILEYVILLE...HARTSHORNE AND PITTSBURG ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS. 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 Jun 5, 10:01 AM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 10:01 AM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1000 AM CDT MON JUN 5 1995 MCS MOVG ACRS NRN/CTRL OK THIS MRNG WL CONT EWD/NEWD DURG MRNG/ ERLY AFTN WHILE DECAYING. WL INCRS POPS FOR ZNS TUL NWD IN PATH OF MCS...MAINLY THRU ERLY AFTN AS AMS SHUD BE STABILIZED BY MCS REMNANTS...MAKING LATE DAY TRW UNLKLY. WL ADJUST TEMPS AS NEEDED DUE TO XPCTD CLDS/PCPN FROM DECAYING MCS. MESONET SHWS GOOD BNDRY OVR CTRL OK BEING LEFT BY MCS...SHUD MOVE OVR SRN/SERN OK THIS AFTN. GOOD HEATG AND HI DWPTS SHUD LEAD TO SCTD AFTN TSTMS...WL CONT 30 TO 40 POPS...AND WL WORD ZNS 'SCTD TRW' RTHR THAN JUST 'A CHC'. NO CHGS TO LTR PDS. PW .TUL...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 1:08 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-029-OKZ054>077-061200- EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 100 PM CDT MON JUN 5 1995 THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40...WITH A SLIGHT RISK ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM THIS EVENING THAT INCLUDES PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...INCLUDING MCCURTAIN COUNTY. A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT MOVED ACROSS NORTHERN OKLAHOMA THIS MORNING CONTINUED TO DIMINISH OVER NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON. OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM THIS SYSTEM WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON AS SURFACE TEMPERATURES WARM...AND AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES EAST NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. WITH THE ATMOSPHERE AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM REMAINING VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE POTENTIAL WILL BE GREATEST SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40...WHERE THESE INGREDIENTS WILL MORE LIKELY COME TOGETHER. THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL ALSO BE LIKELY WELL OFF TO THE WEST OF THE AREA ALONG A DEVELOPING DRYLINE. THESE STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO DEVELOP INTO A COMPLEX THAT WOULD THEN MOVE EASTWARD...AFFECETING EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS LATE lTONIGHT OR EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND BE PREPARED FOR ACTIVATION.
Local storm report, Jun 5, 1:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
130 PM CDT MON JUN 05 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1058 PM OKEMAH OK WIND DAMAGE
06/04/95 OKFUSKEE SEVERAL LARGE TREE
LIMBS DOWN.
1220 AM COLLINSVILLE OK WIND DAMAGE
06/05/95 TULSA TREE BLOWN OVER.
1244 AM INOLA OK WIND DAMAGE
06/05/95 ROGERS TREE UPROOTED.The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee | 53 min |
| Jun 4, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee | 50 min |
| Jun 4, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 41 min |
| Jun 4, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 31 min |
| Jun 4, 11:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee | 36 min |
| Jun 4, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Wagoner | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 12:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 17 min |
| Jun 5, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Wagoner | 65 min |
| Jun 5, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 52 min |
| Jun 5, 1:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 3:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 119 min |
| Jun 5, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 49 min |
| Jun 5, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 49 min |
| Jun 5, 5:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 119 min |
| Jun 5, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 60 min |
| Jun 5, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 42 min |
| Jun 5, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 27 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.