Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1995, 8:46 PM CDT for Muskogee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1995, 8:46 PM CDT (01:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1995, 9:13 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Muskogee County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 3903 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 863 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 328 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 306 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 5.3
- Supercell composite
- 29.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KTUL 100149 RRA SVRTUL OKC021-135-101-100230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 846 PM CDT FRI JUN 9 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA EASTERN MUSKOGEE...SOUTHERN CHEROKEE COUNTY... NORTHERN SEQUOYAH COUNTY AT 845 PM...RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BRAGGS. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. TENKILLER STATE PARK AND COOKSON ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. 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 9, 2:56 PM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 2:56 PM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 255 PM CDT FRI JUN 9 1995 18Z SFC ANALYS INDCTS A OUTFLO BNDRY ACRS ECNTL OK. XPCT TSTMS TO DVLP ALG BNDRY WITH DIFNTL HEATING IN A VERY UNSTBL AMS. MOST OF THE ACTVTY IN SERN OK SHUD END BFR MID DUE TO LACK OF UPR LVL SUPPORT. HWVR LT THIS EVE AND INTO THE NGT...XPCT FOCUS TO SHIFT BACK INTO NERN OK ONCE AGAIN. STG TSTMS FIRING IN SWRN OK WL BGN TO ADVNC NEWD. ETA/NGM GRDD DATA SHOWS LO LVL JET AXIS SLIDING EWD OUT OF WRN OK INTO ERN OK OVRNGT. RMNTS OF BNDRY MAY RETREAT A BIT NWD WITH HVY RAINFALL XPCTD NORTH OF BNDRY. THUS WITH NERN OK QUITE SATRTD...WL ISSUE A FFA FOR MUCH OF NERN OK TNGT. AFT THIS ROUND OF TSTMS ENDS SAT MRNG...LEFTOVR BNDRYS IN UNSTBL AMS WL PRBLY AGAIN BCM THE NEXT FOCUS SAT AFTN AND EVE. AFT THAT ROUND OF TSTMS ENDS...APRCHG CDFNT AND UPR SYS MOVING INTO CNTL PLAINS WL GIVE EOK/NWRN AR ONE MORE GOOD SHOT OF TSTMS SAT NGT AND ERY SUN. HOPING CDFNT WL PUSH ENUF DRY AIR INTO NERN OK SUN TO KEEP ANY LINGERING ACVTY IN SERN OK SUN AFTN. PRELIMS TUL 66/81/63/75 7562 FSM 69/86/66/80 5464 MLC 68/84/65/78 6564 BVO 64/80/61/73 7561 FYV 67/81/63/74 6563 IDB 71/89/67/82 4355 BYV 67/81/63/74 6564 ..11.. .TUL...FFA FOR MUCH OF NERN OK TNGT (ZNS 54>67).
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
630 PM CDT FRI JUN 9 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1100 AM WESTPORT OK NUMEROUS COUNTY ROADS
06/09/95 PAWNEE FLOODED
1200 PM EAST OF LENEPAH OK HIGHWAY 20 CLOSED DUE
06/09/95 NOWATA TO HIGH WATER
1200 PM EAST OF RAMONA OK COUNTY ROADS CLOSED
06/09/95 WASHINGTON DUE TO HIGH WATER
1200 PM CLAREMORE OK NUMEROUS COUNTY ROADS
06/09/95 ROGERS COVERED BY HIGH WATER
1230 PM WEST OF SKIATOOK OK HIGHWAY 11 ON COUNTY
06/09/95 OSAGE LINE CLOSED DUE TO
HIGH WATER
1230 PM EAST OF SKIATOOK OK HIGHWAY 11 ON COUNTY
06/09/95 TULSA LINE CLOSED DUE TO
HIGH WATER
1250 PM EAST OF SKIATOOK OK HIGHWAY 20 AND 126TH
06/09/95 TULSA CLOSED DUE TO HIGH
WATER
0130 PM DRUMRIGHT OK NUMEROUS ROADS COVERED
06/09/95 CREEK BY HIGH WATER
0230 PM BRAGGS OK NUMEROUS TREE LIMBS
06/09/95 MUSKOGEE DOWNEDLocal storm report, Jun 9, 7:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
728 PM CDT FRI JUN 9 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0700 PM BEARDEN OK 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/09/95 OKFUSKEE
0725 PM HENRYETTA OK 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/09/95 OKMULGEEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 35 min |
| Jun 9, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 27 min |
| Jun 9, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Sequoyah | 40 min |
| Jun 9, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 47 min |
| Jun 9, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 47 min |
| Jun 9, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 48 min |
| Jun 9, 11:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 54 min |
| Jun 9, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 49 min |
| Jun 9, 11:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 26 min |
| Jun 9, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 41 min |
| Jun 9, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 52 min |
| Jun 9, 11:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Rogers | 34 min |
| Jun 10, 12:01 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Nowata | 29 min |
| Jun 10, 12:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 48 min |
| Jun 10, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 31 min |
| Jun 10, 12:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Ottawa | 2 hr |
| Jun 10, 12:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 38 min |
| Jun 10, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 26 min |
| Jun 10, 1:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 42 min |
| Jun 10, 2:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Ottawa | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 3:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 39 min |
| Jun 10, 5:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Delaware, Ottawa | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 11:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 46 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.