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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 10, 1995Pittsburg County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 1995, 12:09 PM CDT for Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 10, 1995, 12:09 PM CDT (17:09 UTC)
Expired: Apr 10, 1995, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Pittsburg County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 1417 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 704 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 2.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 101710 RRA
SVRTUL
OKC121-101800-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1209 PM CDT MON APR 10 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  100 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...EASTERN PITTSBURG COUNTY
 
AT 1208 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MCALESTER. THE STORM WAS
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. MCALESTER AND CROWDER ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
 
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 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 HTHE 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 Apr 10, 10:03 AM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 10, 10:03 AM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1000 AM CDT MON APR 10 1995

AT 14Z...FNT STRETCHED E-W ACRS SRN MO TO WK LOW NR PNC...THEN SWWD TO
LOW E OF SPS.  THIS PUTS FA IN IMPRESSIVE WARM SECTOR WITH 60+ SFC DWPTS
AND 50-60 KT H85 JET PUMPING 10-15C DWPTS IN CNTRL OK.  AREA SNDGS
HV DECENT CAP FM ARND 800-700 MB...BUT GRIDDED DATA SHOWED COOLING TEMPS
IN THIS LYR...SO EXPECT TSTRMS TO CONTINUE ALG AND AHD OF BNDRY IN STG
WWA ZN.  CUD SEE HVY RN AS WELL AS MADDOX SYNOPTIC TYPE EVENT IS SETTING
UP...SO WL MENTION PSBL HVY RN IN ZFP.

WITH CLD CVR OVR FA AND CD FNT FLIRTING WITH FAR NRN ZNS...WL MAKE SOME
DOWNWARD ADJUSTMENTS TO AFTN TEMPS.  OTHERWISE...REMAINDER OF FCST LOOKS
GD.

.TUL...NONE.

HODGES

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 10, 9:02 AM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before

OKZ054-055-059-064-101445-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
902 AM CDT MON APR 10 1995

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING UNTIL 915 AM FOR EASTERN OSAGE COUNTY...

AT 900 AM...WEATHER RADAR IN TULSA INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
EASTERN OSAGE COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF OKESA. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY
PRODUCE DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH AS IT PASSES JUST
WEST OF BARTLESVILLE. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO PAWNEE AND SOUTHERN OSAGE
COUNTIES THIS MORNING. PERSONS IN MARAMEC...HALLETT AND HOMINY CAN
EXPECT SOME VERY HEAVY RAINS AND PEA SIZE HAIL THROUGH 1000 AM. THESE
STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

....A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON FOR
OSAGE...WASHINGTON...PAWNEE AND CREEK COUNTIES...

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM FOR
PITTSBURG AND LATIMER COUNTIES...

Local storm report, Apr 10, 9:32 AM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
932 AM CDT MON APR 10 1995

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   ST   EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0850 AM    BARNSDALL, 5 MI E         OK   DIME SIZE HAIL
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0855 AM    BARNSDALL, 8 MI NE        OK   DIME SIZE HAIL
04/10/95   OSAGE

0900 AM    BARTLESVILLE, 5 MI SW     OK   DIME SIZE HAIL

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Local storm report, Apr 10, 9:35 AM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
932 AM CDT MON APR 10 1995

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   ST   EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0850 AM    BARNSDALL, 5 MI E n        OK   DIME SIZE HAIL
04/10/95   OSAGE

0855 AM    BARNSDALL, 8 MI NE        OK   DIME SIZE HAIL
04/10/95   OSAGE

0900 AM    BARTLESVILLE, 5 MI SW     OK   DIME SIZE HAIL

Local storm report, Apr 10, 10:11 AM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
1011 AM CDT MON APR 10 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   ST   EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1002 AM    NEW PRUE, 8 MI E          OK   DIME SIZE HAIL
04/10/95   OSAGE

Local storm report, Apr 10, 10:14 AM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
1011 AM CDT MON APR 10 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   ST   EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1002 AM    NEW PRUE, 8 MI E          OK   DIME SIZE HAIL
04/10/95   OSAGE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 10, 8:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	31 min
Apr 10, 12:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer	45 min
Apr 10, 2:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Okmulgee	3 hr
Apr 10, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Sequoyah	51 min
Apr 10, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore	44 min
Apr 10, 4:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Mayes, Wagoner	3 hr
Apr 10, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	53 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.