Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 394, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1995, 11:47 AM CDT for Cherokee County, Delaware County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 1995, 11:47 AM CDT (16:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 1995, 12:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cherokee County, OK, Delaware County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 261649 RRA SVRTUL OKC021-041-261745- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1147 AM CDT WED JUL 26 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA ...NORTHEASTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...SOUTHWESTERN DELAWARE COUNTY AT 1146 AM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JAY. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE TOWNS OF LEACH...KANSAS...AND SCRAPER ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS 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 26, 9:55 AM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 9:55 AM CDT, 1 hour 52 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 36 min |
| Jul 25, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 46 min |
| Jul 25, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware, Mayes | 53 min |
| Jul 25, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 68 min |
| Jul 25, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee | 45 min |
| Jul 25, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 50 min |
| Jul 25, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 47 min |
| Jul 25, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 42 min |
| Jul 25, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 42 min |
| Jul 25, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 52 min |
| Jul 25, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 60 min |
| Jul 25, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington | 65 min |
| Jul 25, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 65 min |
| Jul 25, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes, Wagoner | 59 min |
| Jul 25, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 59 min |
| Jul 25, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okmulgee | 67 min |
| Jul 25, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 63 min |
| Jul 25, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 69 min |
| Jul 25, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware | 56 min |
| Jul 26, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 29 min |
| Jul 26, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 65 min |
| Jul 26, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 65 min |
| Jul 26, 12:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Sequoyah | 85 min |
| Jul 26, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Okmulgee | 49 min |
| Jul 26, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 59 min |
| Jul 26, 12:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 67 min |
| Jul 26, 1:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer | 61 min |
| Jul 26, 1:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 40 min |
| Jul 26, 4:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 39 min |
| Jul 26, 6:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 45 min |
| Jul 26, 6:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 39 min |
| Jul 26, 7:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 45 min |
| Jul 26, 7:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 40 min |
| Jul 26, 7:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 47 min |
| Jul 26, 8:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 50 min |
| Jul 26, 8:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 47 min |
| Jul 26, 8:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 52 min |
| Jul 26, 9:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 53 min |
| Jul 26, 9:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 50 min |
| Jul 26, 9:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 28 min |
| Jul 26, 9:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 45 min |
| Jul 26, 9:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 46 min |
| Jul 26, 10:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 62 min |
| Jul 26, 10:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 63 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.