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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 230, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 6, 1995Rogers County, Wagoner County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1995, 1:14 AM CDT for Rogers County, Wagoner County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 6, 1995, 1:14 AM CDT (06:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 1995, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Rogers County, OK, Wagoner County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 1 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:03 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 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.

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: 283 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -137 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 060615 RRA
SVRTUL
OKC131-145-060700-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
114 AM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  200 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...ROGERS COUNTY...WESTERN WAGONER COUNTY
 
AT 113 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES WEST OF CLAREMORE TO NEAR BROKEN ARROW. THE
STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. CATOOSA...CLAREMORE AND ONETA ARE IN
THE PATH OF THESE STORMS.
 
 
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS 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 NEVE&R
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 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 8:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 29 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, 7:20 PM CDT, 5 hours 54 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 34 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        CARROLL

The 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, 12:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	53 min
Jun 6, 1:11 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Osage	3 hr
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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1995 Every 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.