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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 281, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 23, 1995Latimer County, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1995, 4:44 PM CDT for Latimer County, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 23, 1995, 4:44 PM CDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Latimer County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 232147 RRA
SVRTUL
OKC077-121-232230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
444 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...WESTERN LATIMER COUNTY...EASTERN PITTSBURG COUNTY
 
AT 443 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ARADR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF HARTSHORNE. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 10
MPH. THE COMMUNITIES OF HARTSHORNE AND HIGGINS ARE NEAR THE PATH
OF THIS STORM.
 
 
 
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED
IN THE WARNED AREA.
 8
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, 3:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 3:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
335 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 1995

OUTFLOW BNDRY HAS PUSHED INTO NRN PART OF FA W/NUMEROUS RW/TRW
FORMING ALNG IT. CELLS HV BEEN SLOW MVG AND W/PLENTY OF MOISTURE TO
WORK WITH SOME LOCALLY HVY RAIN HAS BEEN OCCURRING. WDLY SCT TRW HV
DVLPD ACRS REMAINDER OF FA THIS AFTN. AWAY FROM THR MAIN BNDRY
WOULD XPCT TRW TO DIMINISH W/LOSS OF HEATING. MAIN AREA OF RW/TRW
SHLD CONT INTO AT LEAST ERLY TNGT AND COULD HOLD TOGETHER THRU MUCH
OF THE NGT. MORE TRW ARE POSSIBLE TO W OF FA LATER TNGT WHICH MAY
AFFECT NWRN ZNS AGAIN TWDS MRNG. ATTM AM PLANNING ON JUST SCT
RW/TRW BUT MAY BUMP POPS A LITTLE HIGHER FOR TNGT AT LAST MIN.

WL SPREAD 40 POPS ACRS ENTIRE FA FOR SAT AS FNT PROGRESSES ACRS
AREA. NOT SURE ABT CLD CVR DURG THE DAY. COULD BE LEFT OVR CLDS
FROM OVRNGT STRMS OR THESE CLDS MAY THIN W/TIME. FOR NOW WL STICK
W/PTLY CLDY AND LET LATER SHIFTS ADJ. MAIN THREAT OF PRECIP SHLD
DIMINISH AFT FROPA BUT W/SOME LINGERING MOISTURE AND LIFT PROVIDED
BY S/W PASSING BY TO THE N WL LV 20-30 POPS IN FOR SAT NGT. WOULD
THINK ANY RW/TRW WL BE MAINLY IN EVE AND ERLY NGT TIME HRS...BUT WL
NOT MAKE ANY DISTINCTION IN ZFP DUE TO UNCERTAINTIES. BY 12Z SUN
FNT SHLD JUST BE CLRNG IDB AND WL KEEP POPS OUT OF ZN77 ON SUN.
OTRW SKIES SHLD BE PTLY CLDY/MSTLY SUNNY.

FOR TEMPS LEANED TWDS COOLER FAN NMBRS FOR MAXES AND GENERALLY
STAYED BTWN FWC AND FAN ON MINS.

PRELIMz NMBRS
TUL 67/83 65/83 4421     FSM 68/86 65/84 2431
MLC 67/85 65/83 3431     BVO 65/82 63/83 5421
FYV 64/83 63/82 3431     IDB 67/89 67/84 2331
BYV 60/82 60/81 3431

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, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Ottawa	43 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.