Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 326, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1995, 8:56 PM CDT for Latimer County, LeFlore County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1995, 8:56 PM CDT (01:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1995, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 363 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 050158 RRA SVRTUL OKC077-079-050300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 856 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...LATIMER COUNTY...CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN LE FLORE COUNTY AT 856 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST NORTH OF SPIRO TO LE FLORE TO 10 MILES WEST OF WILBURTON... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. WILBURTON...WISTER...AND TALIHINA ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS 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 CONDITION S.
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 Jul 4, 3:42 PM CDT, 5 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 3:42 PM CDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
340 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995
CAP STILL HOLDING ACROSS FA THIS AFTN...BUT LEADING EDGE OF COLD
AIR ALOFT SHUD BEGIN TO SPILL INTO E OK WITHIN NEXT HOUR OR SO.
PROFILER DATA AND MESONET INDICATING VEERING FLOW AHEAD OF DRYLINE
SO LARGE HAIL LIKELY MAIN THREAT IN W PART OF FA. ETA HELICITY
PROGS TARGET BEST CHC FOR ROTATING STRMS IN E PART OF FA. WL HV
HIGHEST POPS IN E SINCE STRMS MAY FIRE B4 00Z ACROSS W PART OF
AREA. WL GEN STAY WELL ABV MOS POPS FOR TONIGHT. WL HV CAUTION ON
LAKES ACROSS NE OK/NW AR ZNS THIS EVENING.
ETA MAINTAINS GUD CAPES IN E ZNS SO WL CONT CHC POPS IN EAST ZNS
ON WED WITH SLGHT CHC IN W WITH ACTIVITY MAINLY DIURNAL. FNTL BDRY
TO SHIFT E OF AREA BY WED WITH UPR RDG BUILDING W OF AREA BY LATE
IN THE WEEK.
TUL 068/091 069/090 068 421-
FSM 071/090 069/091 067 4431
MLC 070/091 070/091 068 3421
BVO 069/090 067/091 XXX 42`1-
FYV 068/088 067/090 XXX 6431
IDB 071/091 069/090 XXX 3331
BYV 070/089 067/088 XXX 6431
...10...
.TUL...CAUTION ON AREA LAKES THIS EVENING OK ZONES 54>71
AR ZONES 1/2/10/11.In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 4:31 PM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-029-OKZ054>077-051200- EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 430 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1993 ...UPDATE FOR SHORT TERM TRENDS... A THUNDERSTORM HAS RAPIDLY BECOME SEVERE OVER SOUTHEAST CREEK COUNTY BETWEEN BRISTOW AND SLICK. THE STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH AND WILL AFFECT PARTS OF SOUTHERN TULSA COUNTY AND POSSIBLY NORTHERN OKMULGEE COUNTY BETWEEN 5 AND 630 PM. WITH EXTREME INSTABILITY AND A MODERATELY FAVORABLE WIND PROFILE THIS STORM MAY BECOME A SUPERCELL WITH THE THREAT OF EXTREMELY LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORNADOES. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES AND SPOTTER GROUPS IN CREEK...TULSA AND OKMUfLGEE COUNTIES SHOULD IMMEDIATELY DEPLOY SPOTTERS ON THIS STORM. PERSONS IN EASTERN CREEK...SOUTHERN TULSA AND NORTHER OKMULGEE COUNTY SHOULD BE READY TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY AND MONITOR THE SITUATION CLOSELY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Wagoner | 48 min |
| Jul 4, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 42 min |
| Jul 4, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 48 min |
| Jul 4, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer | 69 min |
| Jul 4, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 66 min |
| Jul 4, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 64 min |
| Jul 4, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 46 min |
| Jul 4, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 66 min |
| Jul 4, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 66 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.