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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 328, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 8, 1995Osage County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1995, 9:50 PM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 8, 1995, 9:50 PM CDT (02:50 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 1995, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Osage County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 181 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1995-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1604 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1995-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1604 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2270 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
207 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 090251 RRA
SVRTUL
OKC113-090330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
950 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...WESTERN OSAGE COUNTY
 
AT 950 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF
SHIDLER. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. BURANK AND
FAIRFAX ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
 
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED
IN THE WARNED AREA.
 
DURING THE STORM MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM LIGHTNING DO NOT USE THE TELEPHONE
OR HAND HELD ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES...UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY.
MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR WATER ON ROADWAYS AND NEVER
DRIVE ONTO A FLOODED ROAD.
 
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 Jul 8, 9:03 PM CDT, 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 9:03 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
900 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995

HV BEEN WATCHING STRMS DROP SWD THRU KS THIS AFTN AND EVE AHEAD OF
AN E-W SFC TROF. NEW STRMS HV CONTINUALLY BEEN BUILDING ON THE WRN
FLANK WHILE THE ERN STRMS HV DISSIPATED. ADAP HAS BEEN SHOWING MAX
MCON AND WAA IN SCNTRL KS XTNG WWD THE PAST SVRL HRS WHICH APRS TO
BE WHY STRNGST STRMS KEEP FORMING TO THE W. MCON ON MESONET HAS BEEN
SHOWING A MAX IN N CNTRL OK JUST W OF PNC.

OTHER FACTOR IS CAP WHICH STILL LOOKS HEALTHY ON THE 00Z OUN SNDG.
STRMS APR TO BE SLOWLY WEAKENING AS THEY APRCH OK AND WOULD THINK
THAT SHLD CONT TO BE THE TREND. APRS THAT STRONGEST STORMS MAY
CLIP WRN OSAGE AND PAWNEE CNTYS BUT COULD STAY TO THE N AND W OF FA.

00Z UA ANALYSIS SEEMS TO SHOW S/W BEST AT H7 DROPPING SEWD. HOWEVER
THERE IS A THERMAL TROF EVIDENT AT H5 XTNG ACRS SRN KS.

ELSEWHERE SOME RW- HV HELD TOGETHER LONG ENOUGH TO TRACK ACRS NW AR
ZNS THIS EVE. OTRW TEMPS REMAIN ON THE WM SIDE ACRS ENTIRE FA.

WL CONT W/THINKING IN 740 PM AMD ZNS. WL CARRY HIEST POPS IN ZNS
54/59/64 WHICH ARE CLOSEST TO CRNT TRW. W/SOME WK FORCING SEEN
UPSTREAM IN 00Z ANALYSES WL KEEP SLGT CHC POjPS GOING THRUOUT THE
NGT ACRS THE REST OF NERN OK AND NW AR. MAY ALSO SPREAD SOME LO
POPS INTO FSM VCNTY AS LINE OF RW- KEEPS MVG SWD. WL TAKE A LAST
MIN LOOK AT TEMPS AND WINDS BUT SUSPECT THEY WL BE FINE.

07

.TUL...NONE.

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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.