Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1995, 5:36 PM CDT for Adair County, Cherokee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1995, 5:36 PM CDT (22:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1995, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 244 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 082237 RRA SVRTUL OKC001-021-082330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 536 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA ...ADAIR COUNTY...EASTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY AT 533 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CENTERED ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TAHLEQUAH...MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PASS BETWEEN PROCTOR AND STILWELL BEFORE 6 PM. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE 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 TUNED2 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, 3:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 3:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...ADD FFA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 315 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995 HAVE GOTTEN QUIT A BIT BEHIND WITH STRONG TO SVR STORM IN NRN ZNS AND OB MOVING WELL INTO NE OK...SO THIS WILL BE BRIEF. CLUSTER OF STORMS SEEMS TO BE BEING SUPPORTED BY VORT MAX MOVING INTO NE OK. GOES-8 WV IMAGRY SHOWS SUBSNC AREA BEHIND DISTURBANCE MOVING THRU N TX INTO SE OK. PCP SHUD CONT TO SPREAD E AND SE INTO ARK WITH ADDITIONAL DVLPMENT PSBL ON OB THIS EVE IN EC/SE OK WHERE TMPS HAVE GOTTEN INTO MID/UP 80S. OTR DVLPMENT LIKELY OVR W OK NEAR FNT...MAY MOVE E BACK INTO NE OK AFT MIDNIGHT. WILL KEEP HIGHEST POPS IN NRN ZNS AND TAPPER SOUTHWARD. APPEARS DYNAMICS WILL ALL LIFT WELL N OF FA FRI BUT WITH ETA CAPES > 4000 AND CINH NOT OVERWHELMING WILL KEEP SLGT CHC POPS OVR FA FRI. ETA/AVN AGREE WITH LAST NIGHTS MRF IN BRINGING FNT INTO FA ON SAT. THIS MORNS NGM KEEPS FNT WELL N BUT DRAGS DRYLN INTO CENT OK. SO NGM MOS TMPS/POPS IN LATER PERIODS ARE MUCH DIF THAN FAN MOS. WILL GO ALONG WITH ETA/AVN/MRF AND NMC MAN PROGS AND BRING FNT INTO NE OK SAT MORN. SHUD BE WIDESPREAD PCP AHEAD OF FNT INTO NE OK FRI NIGHT AND THEN MOVE THRU FA SAT. THOUGHT ABOUT FFA FOR NRN TIER OF ZNS WHERE TRW MAY RETRAK LATER TONIGHT. WILL TRY TO COORD WITH OUN/TOP ON THIS AND REISSUE AFD IF ONE IS DECIDED. ADDED FFA. /13 TUL 068/088 069/082 060 3244 FSM 071/091 071/085 066 2124 MLC 073/091 073/085 063 2124 BVO 064/088 067/082 XXX 5253 FYV 069/088 070/083 XXX 4224 IDB 071/092 072/089 XXX 1113 BYV 065/086 067/084 XXX 4234 .TUL...FFA TONIGHT ZNS 54>58.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 1:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 36 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.
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 4:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
OKZ054>069-082115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 401 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA... AT 355 PM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MUCH OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM OKMULGEE TO SILOAM SPRINGS ARKANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER MAYES COUNTY...PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST ARKANSAS UNTIL 9 PM.
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 4:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
OKZ054>069-082115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 401 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA... AT 355 PM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MUCH OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM OKMULGEE TO SILOAM SPRINGS ARKANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER MAYES COUNTY...PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST ARKANSAS UNTIL 9 PM.
Local storm report, Jun 8, 4:52 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
452 PM CDT THU JUN 08 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
145 PM DEWEY OK 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/08/95 WASHINGTON CO
230 PM 6-8 MI EAST OF OTTAWA OK SEVERAL TREES BLOWN DOWN
06/08/95 OTTAWA CO
325 PM BLUE JACKET/WELCH AREA OK POWER LINES AND SEVERAL
06/08/95 CRAIG CO TREES BLOWN DOWN
.Local storm report, Jun 8, 4:57 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
452 PM CDT THU JUN 08 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
145 PM DEWEY OK 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/08/95 WASHINGTON CO
230 PM 6-8 MI EAST OF OTTAWA OK SEVERAL TREES BLOWN DOWN
06/08/95 OTTAWA CO
325 PM BLUE JACKET/WELCH AREA OK POWER LINES AND SEVERAL
06/08/95 CRAIG CO TREES BLOWN DOWN
.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, 2:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 42 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 |
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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.