Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 397, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 1995, 3:15 PM CDT for Wagoner County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 6, 1995, 3:15 PM CDT (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 1995, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wagoner County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 062017 RRA SVRTUL OKC145-062100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 315 PM CDT SUN AUG 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...WAGONER COUNTY AT 313 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM EXTENDING FROM NEAR CATOOSA TO NEAR CLAREMORE. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE COMMUNITIES OF NEODESHA AND ONETA ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 70 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 Aug 6, 2:56 PM CDT, 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 2:56 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 255 PM CDT SUN AUG 6 1995 AM ASSISTING SHORT TERM FCSTR AT WARNING DESK SO WL KEEP BRIEF. WL KEEP SMALL CHC POPS IN FOR ERLY TONIGHT ACROSS E AND S ZNS. GRIDDED DATA SHOWING GUD H8 THTE ADVT AND UPR DIV INTO SO MO THIS EVENING SO WL KEEP POPS GOING INTO NIGHT ACROSS SMALL PART OF NW AR. MDLS PROG CNTR OF UPR HIGH TO ARCH FA SO MID LVL WARMING SHUD BEGIN ACROSS AREA ON MON. ALTHO CANNOT RULE OUT ISTLD STRMS IN FAR S AND E ZNS ON MON...FEEL CHCS ARE TOO LOW TO MENTION. FWC MAXES APR A LTL TOO WARM FOR MON AND TUE. TUL 074/095 077/096 077 1--- FSM 073/094 074/096 074 21-- MLC 075/096 075/097 077 1--- BVO 072/096 074/096 xxx 1--- FYV 071/094 072/096 xxx 21-- IDB 072/096 073/096 xxx 21-- BYV 068/093 070/094 xxx 31-- ...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, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 42 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.