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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 399, NWS Tulsa, OK

August 19, 1995Latimer County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1995, 1:59 PM CDT for Latimer County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 19, 1995, 1:59 PM CDT (18:59 UTC)
Expired
Aug 19, 1995, 2:45 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Latimer County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 199 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 1995-08-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 199 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 1995-08-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -46 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
199 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-213 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1834 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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 19, 10:25 AM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 10:25 AM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
FPUS3 KTUL 191525
AFDTUL

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1025 AM CDT SAT AUG 19 1995

MRNG CONVECTION CONT ACROSS EXTREME E ZNS IN NW AR THIS MRNG. AREA
SDNGS QUITE UNSTABLE WITH SGF SHOWING IMPRESSIVE H7-H5 LAPSE RATES
AND 3200 J/KG CAPE (UNMODIFIED). WK MCON ACROSS S AND E ZNS SHUD
ENHANCE ACTIVITY THERE THIS AFTN...SO WL BOOST POPS IN THESE AREAS
A LTL. MAX TEMPS WL BE TRICKY AS WELL. CURRENT TEMP FCST FOR THIS
AFTN LOOKS GUD WITH ONLY A FEW TWEAKS PLANNED.

...10...

.TUL...NONE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 19, 2:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee, Sequoyah40 min
Aug 19, 3:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee26 min
Aug 19, 3:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg47 min
Aug 19, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh, Muskogee48 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.