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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 396, NWS Tulsa, OK

August 6, 1995Rogers County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 1995, 2:18 PM CDT for Rogers County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 6, 1995, 2:18 PM CDT (19:18 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 1995, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Rogers County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 171 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1172 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 789 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 061920 RRA
SVRTUL
OKC131-062000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
218 PM CDT SUN AUG 6 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...ROGERS COUNTY
 
AT 216 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES EAST OF COLLINSVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT
20 MPH. THE CITY OF CLAREMORE IS 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.
 
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 Aug 6, 10:15 AM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 10:15 AM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before

FPUS3 KTUL 061513
AFDTUL

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1015 AM CDT SUN AUG 6 1995

SFC OBS...MESONET AND SATL SHOW WELL-DEFINED OUTFLOW BDRY FROM JUST
N OF FYV TO STILWELL TO S OF MLC. MUCH BTR ORGANIZED CONVECTION
CCONT ACROSS SE KS NR WK SFC BDRY AND BTR FORCING. AREA SNDGS
REMAIN UNSTABLE AND WITH DEEP MOISTURE PROFILES...PRECIP WTR LIKELY
TO REMAIN NR 2 INCHES. THIS CUD LEAD TO LOCALIZE FLOODING PROBS OVR
N LTR TDY. WL ADJUST POPS FOR THIS AFTN BASED ON CURRENT RADAR
TRENDS. NO CHGS PLANNED FOR TEMPS.

AFT LOOKING BRIEFLY AT 12Z MDL DATA...FCST REASONGING FOR REMAINING
PERIODS LOOKS GUD.

...10...

.TUL...NONE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 6, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Wagoner	45 min
Aug 6, 3:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Rogers, Wagoner	30 min
Aug 6, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	28 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.