Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 277, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1995, 2:42 PM CDT for Tulsa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 1995, 2:42 PM CDT (19:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1995, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tulsa County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 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
- 673 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1512 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 231945 RRA SVRTUL OKC143-232030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 242 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...TULSA COUNTY AT 240 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CENTERED NEAR 11TH STREET AND SHERIDAN AVENUE IN TULSA. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. 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 23, 10:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 10:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before
FPUS3 KTUL 231459 AFDTUL EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1000 AM CDT FRI JUN 23 1995 VSBL SAT LOOP SHOWS WELL DEFINED OUTFLOW BNDRY MVG S ACRS KS THIS MRNG. BIG QUESTION IS WHERE WL IT STOP. THERE ALSO APR TO BE NUMEROUS OTHER BNDRYS ACRS FA. 12Z SNDGS MODIFIED FOR XPCTD AFTN CONDS SHOW A GOOD DEAL OF INSTABILITY AND LITTLE IF ANY CAP. BUT THERE IS STILL NOT MUCH FLOW SO CELLS SHLD BE SLOW MVG. NEW ECHOES HV FORMED ALNG BNDRY NEAR ICT DURG THE PAST 1/2 HR OR SO. WL BUMP UP POPS IN NW ZNS FOR NOW AND LET 20 POPS RIDE ELSEWHERE. IF BNDRY CONTS MVG SWD INTO FA MAY HV TO UPDATE ZNS TO INCRS CHC OF TRW FURTHER S. OTRW GOING FCST LOOKS FINE FOR NOW. 07 .TUL...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa, Wagoner | 48 min |
| Jun 23, 2:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 32 min |
| Jun 23, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 48 min |
| Jun 23, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Ottawa | 43 min |
| Jun 23, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg | 46 min |
| Jun 23, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 27 min |
| Jun 23, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 67 min |
| Jun 23, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 39 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.