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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 280, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 23, 1995Craig County, Ottawa County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1995, 3:32 PM CDT for Craig County, Ottawa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 23, 1995, 3:32 PM CDT (20:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 1995, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Craig County, OK, Ottawa County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 108 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: 220 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1209 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 232034 RRA
SVRTUL
OKC035-115-232115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
332 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...EASTERN CRAIG COUNTY...NORTHERN OTTAWA COUNTY
 
AT 330 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WELCH TO 5 MILES
NORTHWEST OF COMMERCE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 MPH. THE
COMMUNITIES OF COMMERCE...PICHER AND WELCH ARE IN THE PATH OF
THESE STORMS.
 
 
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TOn 65 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, 5 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 10:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 32 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, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	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, 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

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.