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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 403, NWS Tulsa, OK

August 19, 1995McIntosh County, Muskogee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1995, 3:42 PM CDT for McIntosh County, Muskogee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 19, 1995, 3:42 PM CDT (20:42 UTC)
Expired
Aug 19, 1995, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

Counties McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 173 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

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

000 
WUUS1 KTUL 192048 RRA
SVRTUL
OKC091-101-192130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
342 PM CDT SAT AUG 19 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
 
   ...MCINTOSH COUNTY...WESTERN MUSKOGEE COUNTY
 
AT 342 PM RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR
MUSKOGEE TO EUFAULA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING WEST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
THE CITIES OF MUSKOGEE, CHECOTAH AND EUFAULA ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THESE
STORMS.
 
WIND GUSTS TO 60 MILES AN HOUR 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.

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, 3:33 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 3:33 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
330 PM CDT SAT AUG 19 1995

VRY BUSY AFTN AS HOT TEMPS HV RESULTED IN PULSE SVR STRMS IN S AND
E PART OF FA. RUC AND GRIDDED DATA MAINTAINING GUD INSTABILTY
ACROSS THE AREA INTO THIS EVENING WITH GUD H3 UPR DIV PROGGED INTO
SE OK/ W CENT AR THIS EVENING. WL KEEP ISOLATED STRMS GOING IN THE
N WITH A LTL BTR COVERAGE EXPECTED OVR S THRU EARLY THIS EVENING.

FNT HAS STALLED ACROSS E CENT KS THRU NW OK THIS AFTN. FNT MAY HV
A LTL MORE PUSH TO GO...BUT ATM HV A HARD TIME SEEING IT MAKING IT
TO NE OK. IN ANY EVENT...GRIDDED DATA MAINTAINING BEST INSTAB THRU
MON ACROSS S AND E PARTS OF FA. LOW LVL THCK PROGS SUGGEST MAX
TEMPS ON MON WL BE A LTL LOWER THAN TDY ACROSS N...LTL CHG
ELSEWHERE. WL NOT MENTION POPS FOR MON AS WK SUBSIDENCE AND
BTR STABILITY SHUD PREVAIL.

THIS WILL BE MY LAST OPERATION SHIFT HERE AT WFO TUL. EARLY NEXT
WEEK...I WILL BE LEAVING FOR CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS TO BECOME THE
SOO. IT'S BEEN GREAT WORKING IN TORNADO ALLEY...ESPECIALLY DURING
THE MARD. I WILL MISS THE CHALLENGE OF FORECASTING IN THIS AREA NOT
TO MENTION AN OCCASIONAL STORM CHASE...BUT I WILL NOT MISS THE
ROTATING SHIFTS. NOW I WILL TRY MY HAND IN THE TROPICS WHERE BOTH
THE MESOSCALE FORECASTING AND SURF WILL PROVE QUITE CHALLENGING.

MY FINAL NUMBERS...

TUL 074/096 074/095 073 1--
FSM 074/098 075/097 074 3211
MLC 073/098 073/098 075 3211
BVO 070/09*4 072/096 XXX 11--
FYV 070/094 069/094 XXX 221-
IDB 074/102 073/098 XXX 3211
BYV 069/094 070/094 XXX 221-

...10...   A. PATRICK

.TUL...NONE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 19, 1:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALatimer46 min
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

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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.