Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1995, 2:03 PM CDT for Nowata County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1995, 2:03 PM CDT (19:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1995, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nowata County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 238 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
- 3219 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 628 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 081904 RRA SVRTUL OKC105-081945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 203 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...NOWATA COUNTY AT 202 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN NOWATA COUNTY. THE STRONGEST PART OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES WEST OF NOWATA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. NOWATA...LENAPAH AND DELAWARE ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES 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 8, 10:26 AM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 10:26 AM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1010 AM CDT THU JUN 8 1995 CLUSTER OF TRW IN SE KS IS SLOWLY BUT SURELY DVLPING SOUTHWARD THIS MORNING. AXIS OF H85 DWPTS CLOSE TO + 20 DEG C FEEDING SYS AND WITH H85-H30 THCKNES RDG JUST WEST OF MCS...DVLPMNET MAY CONT TO SOUTH THEN SOUTHEAST INTO NE OK. NEW ETA 6 HR PROG SHOWS VORT MAX IS TROPICAL FLOW MOVING OUT OF TX INTO CENT OK...WHICH WILL GIVE FURTHER SUPPORT TO MCS. MID LVL ECHOS ALREADY SHOWING UP IN OSAGE COUNTY. WILL UP POPS TO LIKELY IN ZNS BORDERING KS AND DECREASE TO S. WILL ADD ISO TRW TO ZN 77 ALSO. LOW CLDS DONT LUK AS THCK AS YESTERDAY ON SAT...WITH THINNER CLDS MOVING INTO SOUTHERN OK. WILL WORD MOCLDY OR PTSUNNY AND KEEP TMP FCST ABT AS IN PREV FCST. /13 .TUL...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 1:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
OKZ054>077-ARZ001-002-010-011-019-029-091200- EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 100 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995 THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AND NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTH OF INTERSTATE 40. A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST THROUGH EVENING OVER THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA...SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40. A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND COMBINE WITH WARM TEMPERATURES...RESULTING IN SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. THE AIRMASS IS QUITE MOIST AND VERY UNSTABLE WHICH WILL PROVIDE A GOOD POSSIBILITY FOR A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TO BECOME SEVERE. THE GREATEST THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE OVER NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ARE EXPECTED TO WEAKEN OR DISSIPATE DURING THE EVENING. . THE GREATES POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE FROM HAIL AND HIGH WINDS. HOWEVER...TORNADOES MAY BE POSSIBLE MAINLY OVER NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA WHERE UPPER LEVEL WINDS ARE MORE FAVORABLE. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS AND FORECASTS AND BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 1:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 28 min |
| Jun 8, 2:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 37 min |
| Jun 8, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 53 min |
| Jun 8, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 37 min |
| Jun 8, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee | 54 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.