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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 334, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 22, 1995LeFlore County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1995, 5:04 PM CDT for LeFlore County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 22, 1995, 5:04 PM CDT (22:04 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 1995, 5:33 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

County LeFlore County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 237 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1995-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2717 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1995-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -40 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2717 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
666 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 222212 RRA
SVRTUL
OKC079-222245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED...RETRANSMITTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
504 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...EASTERN LE FLORE COUNTY
 
AT 504 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CENTERED IN
THE VICINITY OF WISTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. POTEAU IS 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.

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 22, 3:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 3:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
345 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 1995

PATTERN TO REMAIN MUCH THE SAME WITH EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST
ARKANSAS ON THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THE WESTERLIES AND READY TO CATCH
ANY SHORTWAVES WHICH MAY COME ALONG WITH THEM.  THE ONE WHICH
BROUGHT RAIN TO THE AREA OVERNIGHT AND THIS MORNING CAN BE SEEN
MOVING EAST ACROSS ARKANSAS IN WATOR VAPOR PICS WITH LOTS OF DRY
AIR BEHIND IT.   LITTLE NOTICE YET AT THE WEAK SHORTWAVE THE NGM
BRINGS ACROSS TONIGHT INTO TOMORROW MORNING.  WILL STILL INCLUDE
SMALL POPS TONIGHT AND TOMORROW DUE TO IT.  GRIDDED DATA SHOWS
INSTABILITY TO REMAIN HIGH THROUGHOUT THE FORCECAST FRAME AND THE
FORECAST AREA WILL ALSO LIE ALONG A THETA-E RIDGE AXIS THROUGH THE
TIME FRAME ALSO.  ONE HINDRANCE WILL BE WARM MID LEVEL
TEMPERATURES.  S784 TEMPERATURES ARE AT OR ABOVE +15 C. HENCE THE
SMALL POPS TONIGHT AND TOMORROW.   HOWEVER...THE NGM...ETA AND AVN
ALL ARE IN REASONABLE AGREEMENT A STRONG SHORTWAVE WILL APPROACH
FROM THE WEST SUNDAY NIGHT AND CROSS THE AREA MONDAY.  THUS...HAVE
INCREASED POPS BEGINNING SUNDAY NIGHT WITH THE BEST POPS SUNDAY.

TUL 076/096 076/090 075 2235
FSM 074/0(96 076/092 074 2235
MLC 074/096 075/092 075 2235
BVO 074/096 075/090 074 2235
FYV 072/093 073/088 072 2235
IDB 072/096 073/093 073 --35
BYV 070/093 071/088 071 2235

.TUL...NONE.

ABBAS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 2:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage, Pawnee49 min
Jul 22, 2:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage, Tulsa, Washington48 min
Jul 22, 2:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek48 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.