Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1995, 12:52 AM CDT for Tulsa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1995, 12:52 AM CDT (05:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1995, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tulsa County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:57 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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 1309 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1243 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KTUL 060552 RRA SVRTUL OKC143-060645- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1252 AM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...TULSA COUNTY AT 1251 AM...RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 4 MILES WEST OF COLLINSVILLE TO 2 MILES WEST OF JENKS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. TULSA AND BROKEN ARROW ARE IN 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, 8:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 8:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
FPUS3 KTUL 060145 AFDTUL EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 845 PM CDT MON JUN 5 1995 00Z ANALYS INDCTS VERY UNSTBL AMS OVR EOK WITH H5 TEMPS OF -12 AT OUN. NEW AREA OF TSTMS HAS DVLPD OVR NCNTL OK MOVG EWD. SO WL HV TO RAISE POPS FOR NRN PTNS OF FA. SRN PTNS OF FA LUK FAVORABLE FOR TSTMS ALSO AS SATL PICS INDCT ANOTHER VORT MAX ROTATING ARND ON THE HEELS OF THE CONVCTV VORT MAX WHICH HAD SET OFF THE TSTMS IN SERN OK/NWRN AR THIS AFTN. BLV TSTMS WL MOV FAST ENUF TO AVOID PROLONGED RAINFALL. WL NOT PLAN ON A FFA BUT MAY CHG MY MIND AT LAST MIN. ..11.. .TUL...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 6:55 PM CDT, 5 hours 57 minutes before
OKZ076-060015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 656 PM CDT MON JUN 5 1995 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHERN LE FLORE COUNTY WILL EXPIRED AT 700 PM... AT 655 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS CONTINUING OVER LE FLORE COUNTY IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA. A FEW SHOWERS WILL LINGER FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS...HOWEVER ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL BE LIGHT AND THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING HAS ENDED. THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHERN LE FLORE COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 700 PM AND WILL NOT BE EXTENDED.
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 6:56 PM CDT, 5 hours 56 minutes before
OKZ076-060015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 656 PM CDT MON JUN 5 1995 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHERN LE FLORE COUNTY WILL EXPIRED AT 700 PM... AT 655 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS CONTINUING OVER LE FLORE COUNTY IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA. A FEW SHOWERS WILL LINGER FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS...HOWEVER ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL BE LIGHT AND THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING HAS ENDED. THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHERN LE FLORE COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 700 PM AND WILL NOT BE EXTENDED.
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 7:01 PM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
ARZ001-010-060015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 701 PM CDT MON JUN 5 1995 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS FOR BENTON AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES EXPIRED AT 700 PM... AT 700 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER BENTON AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS HAD WEAKEN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. HOWEVER...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM REMAINS JUST SOUTH OF GRAVETTE TO NEAR GENTRY. THIS STORM WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL OR BRIEF GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR AS IT MOVES TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER LESS INTENSE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER WASHINGTON AND BENTON COUNTIES.
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 7:20 PM CDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before
OKZ068>076-060100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 720 PM CDT MON JUN 5 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 551 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PARTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 551 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA... ADAIR CHEROKEE MCINTOSH MUSKOGEE SEQUOYAH HASKELL PITTSBURG LATIMER LE FLORE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 551 RElMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM FOR NORTHWEST ARKANSAS.
Local storm report, Jun 5, 10:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1035 PM CDT MON JUN 5 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0520 PM 1 S MULDROW OK 3/4 INCH HAIL
06/05/95 SEQUOYAH WIND DAMAGE
TREES BLOWN DOWN.
0550 PM MOUNTAINBURG AR WIND DAMAGE
06/05/95 CRAWFORD SEVERAL LARGE TREE
LIMBS BLOWN DOWN.
0600 PM PANAMA OK STREET FLOODING.
06/05/95 LE FLORE
0610 PM 5 SE STILWELL OK WIND GUST TO 60 MPH.
06/05/95 ADAIR
0620 PM SILOAM SPRINGS AR 0.88 INCH HAIL.
06/05/95 BENTON
0630 PM WESTVILLE OK 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/95 ADAIR WIND DAMAGE
TREES BLOWN DOWN.
0715 PM GREEN FOREST AR 0.75 INCH HAIL.
06/05/95 CARROLL
0800 PM GREEN FOREST AR HIGHWAY 62 AND
06/05/95 CARROLL NUMEROUS COUNTY ROADS
FLOODED.
0805 PM GREEN FOREST AR 3/4 INCH HAIL.
06/05/95 CARROLLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 44 min |
| Jun 5, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 8:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 1:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 1:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Wagoner | 46 min |
| Jun 6, 2:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Washington | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 8:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 42 min |
| Jun 6, 8:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 47 min |
| Jun 6, 9:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Tulsa | 40 min |
| Jun 6, 9:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 54 min |
| Jun 6, 9:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 32 min |
| Jun 6, 10:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 38 min |
| Jun 6, 10:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 51 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.