Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 332, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1995, 2:42 AM CDT for Osage County, Tulsa County, Washington County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 1995, 2:42 AM CDT (07:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 1995, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Osage County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 3489 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1356 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 21, 8:30 PM CDT, 6 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 8:30 PM CDT, 6 hours 12 minutes before
FPUS3 KTUL 220129
AFDTUL
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
830 PM CDT FRI JUL 21 1995
SCTD STORMS HAVE DVLPD IN WRN/CNTRL OK ALG WEAK SFC TROF. STORMS
ARE BEING AIDED BY LIFT IN RIGHT REAR QUAD OF 250 MB JET
MAXIMUM AS SEEN ON 00Z PROFILER DATA. THE STORMS ARE WEAKENING
AS THEY MOVE AWAY FROM SFC TROF...BUT THE ACTIVITY SHUD GRADLY
SPREAD INTO ERN OK TONITE. OUN SNDG AT 00Z SHOWED VRY UNSTABLE
AIRMASS WITH STEEP MID LVL LAPSE RATES AND LTL CAP.
WL UP POPS INTO CHC CATEGORY IN AREAS W OF TUL FOR REST OF THE
NITE AS TRW OR AT LEAST REMNANT RW- SPREAD EWD FROM CNTRL OK.
WL KEEP ONLY A SLGT CHC IN NW AR AND EXTRM ERN OK TONITE WHERE
WDLY SCTD TRW- NOT LIKELY TO AFFECT THOSE AREAS TIL AFTR 09Z.
WL MAKE NO CHGS TO LATER PDS OF FCST. AFTN PKG HAS GUD HANDLE
ON TEMPS/POPS THRU THE WEEKEND AS SUBTROPICAL JET REMAINS ACRS
KS. BEST BET FOR SCTD STORMS APPRS TO BE ACRS NE OK THRU SAT
NITE AS THIS AREA WILL BE CLOSEST TO SUBTROP JET...COOLEST
MID LVL TEMPS AND PSBL SFC BNDRIES.
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.TUL...NONE.The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 2:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 49 min |
| Jul 22, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 48 min |
| Jul 22, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 29 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.