Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 328, NWS Tulsa, OK
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.
- 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
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.
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.