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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 395, NWS Tulsa, OK

August 3, 1995Ottawa County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1995, 4:03 PM CDT for Ottawa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 3, 1995, 4:03 PM CDT (21:03 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 1995, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Ottawa County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 294 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, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1995-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 876 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, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1995-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
876 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
508 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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.