Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 402, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1995, 3:28 PM CDT for Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 1995, 3:28 PM CDT (20:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1995, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pittsburg County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 192031 SVRTUL OKC121-192115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 328 PM CDT SAT AUG 19 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...PITTSBURG COUNTY AT 328 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF BLOCKER IN NORTHEAST PITTSBURG COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS DRIFTING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO THE SOUTHERN SECTION OF LAKE EUFAULA. OTHER STRONG STORMS...THAT MAY BRIEFLY BECOME SEVERE EXTENDED SOUTH FROM BLOCKER TO JUST WEST OF WEATHERS. WIND GUSTS TO 65 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 ROAD"WAYS 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 19, 10:25 AM CDT, 5 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 10:25 AM CDT, 5 hours 3 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer | 46 min |
| Aug 19, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Sequoyah | 40 min |
| Aug 19, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 26 min |
| Aug 19, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee | 48 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.