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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 391, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 26, 1995Mayes County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1995, 9:59 AM CDT for Mayes County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 26, 1995, 9:59 AM CDT (14:59 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 1995, 10:45 AM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Mayes County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 144 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 1995-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 29 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 1995-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 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
29 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-315 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1694 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
119 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 261501 RRA
SVRTUL
OKC097-261545-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
959 AM CDT WED JUL 26 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...EASTERN MAYES COUNTY
 
AT 956 AM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF ADAIR
AND ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 SOUTHEAST OF ADAIR. THE STORMS WERE
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. SALINA AND SPAVINAW ARE IN THE
PATHS OF THESE STORMS.
 
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS 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 ROA:D.

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 26, 9:55 AM CDT, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 9:55 AM CDT, 4 minutes before
FPUS3 KTUL 261453
AFDTUL

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
955 AM CDT WED JUL 26 1995

12Z H5 ANALYS INDCTS MAIN S/W HAS MOVED EAST OF FA.  SATL PICS INDCT
WELL DVLPD VORT MAX OVR NCNTL AR.  HWVR..STG TSTMS HV REDVLPD THIS
MRNG OVR XTRM ERN OK.  PROFILER DATA INDCTS ANOTHER WK IMPULSE HAS
FRMD BHND THE VORT MAX.  H5 TEMPS STILL COLD ENUF TO CAUSE DESTBLZTN
AND ENUF RESIDUAL LO LVL MOISTR LINGERS TO SUPPORT CONVCTN.  THUS WL
HV TO INTRODC POPS FOR XTRM ERN OK ERY THIS AFTN WITH POPS THRUT THE
AFTN FOR NWRN AR.  MAY LWR MAX TEMPS ONE CAT IN XTRM ERN OK/NWRN AR
DUE TO INCRSD CLD CVR.  OTRW REST OF ERY MRNG FCST LUKS GOOD.

..11..

.TUL...NONE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 8:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOttawa36 min
Jul 25, 8:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSADelaware46 min
Jul 25, 9:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSADelaware, Mayes53 min
Jul 25, 9:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage, Pawnee68 min
Jul 25, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee45 min
Jul 25, 9:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSARogers50 min
Jul 25, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMayes47 min
Jul 25, 10:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage, Washington42 min
Jul 25, 10:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPawnee42 min
Jul 25, 10:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee52 min
Jul 25, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair60 min
Jul 25, 10:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington65 min
Jul 25, 10:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSANowata65 min
Jul 25, 11:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMayes, Wagoner59 min
Jul 25, 11:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig59 min
Jul 25, 11:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Okmulgee67 min
Jul 25, 11:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOttawa63 min
Jul 25, 11:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee69 min
Jul 25, 11:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee, Delaware56 min
Jul 26, 12:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkfuskee29 min
Jul 26, 12:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair65 min
Jul 26, 12:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh65 min
Jul 26, 12:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, Sequoyah85 min
Jul 26, 12:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee, Okmulgee49 min
Jul 26, 12:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg59 min
Jul 26, 12:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore67 min
Jul 26, 1:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALatimer61 min
Jul 26, 1:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore40 min
Jul 26, 4:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkfuskee39 min
Jul 26, 6:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg45 min
Jul 26, 6:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWashington39 min
Jul 26, 7:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSARogers45 min
Jul 26, 7:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMayes40 min
Jul 26, 7:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSANowata47 min
Jul 26, 8:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMayes50 min
Jul 26, 8:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSARogers47 min
Jul 26, 8:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig52 min
Jul 26, 9:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMayes53 min
Jul 26, 9:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee50 min
Jul 26, 9:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg28 min
Jul 26, 9:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig45 min
Jul 26, 10:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig62 min
Jul 26, 10:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMayes63 min
Jul 26, 11:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee, Delaware58 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.