Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 403, NWS Tulsa, OK
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.
- 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 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.
| 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, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 47 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.