Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 404, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 1995, 11:34 PM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 6, 1995, 11:34 PM CDT (04:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1995, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Osage County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 2000 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1940 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 070435 RRA SVRTUL OKC113-070515- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1134 PM CDT WED SEP 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...NORTHERN OSAGE COUNTY AT 1135 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORAKER MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. BIGHEART IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.
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 Sep 6, 9:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 9:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
909 PM CDT WED SEP 6 1995
SFC ANAL HAS TWO MAIN BNDRYS AT 01Z WHICH WILL AFFECT ERN OK WX
TONITE/THURS. A SFC TROF/WK FRONT SNAKED FROM IA INTO CNTRL KS
AND NW OK. THIS TROF WAS MOVG SLOWLY SE. THE LONG-AWAITED CANADIAN
COLD FRONT WAS MOVG THRU CNTRL NEBRASKA. XPCT FRONT TO CATCH UP
TO THE TROF IN KS TONITE AND MOVE INTO NE OK THURS MORN. AFTN
PKG HAS GUD HANDLE ON FRONTAL TIMING AND WSHFT.
BIG QUESTION IS WHETHER OR NOT WIDESPRD PCPN WILL ACCOMPANY THIS
SYSM. STG CAP EVIDENT ON OUN SNDG THIS EVE HAS PROHIBITED DVLPMENT
OVR NW OK SO FAR DESPITE PERSISTENT AND STRONG MSTR FLUX CONVERGENCE.
EVE UA DATA SUGGESTS THE CAP WILL NOT BE BROKEN BEFORE COOLER H7
TEMPS ARRIVE SOMETIME TOWARD 12Z THURS. SGF SNDG HAD MUCH WEAKER
CAP BUT LESS LO LVL MSTR. SO PROSPECTS FOR TRW WITH UPDRAFTS ROOTED
IN BLYR LOOK LOW UNTIL LATE TONITE OR EARLY THURS MORN.
DESPITE THE ABOVE NEGATIVE FACTORS FOR PRECIP...HAVE OPTED TO NOT
MAKE ANY BIG CHGS TO 1ST PD POPS. 700 MB UPR AIR MAP AND PROFILER
WINDS INDICATE A MID LVL TROF OVR CNTRL KS AND THE TX PANHANDLE
ASSD WITH THE SFC TROF. PLENTY OF MID LVL CLDINESS HAS DVLPD THIS
EVE ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE TROF OVR ERN KS AND OK. AS THE FRONTAL
SYSM MOVES INTO KS TONITE...EXPCT SCTD ELEVATED CONVECTION TO
DVLP IN THE BAROCLINIC ZN AND SPRD SEWD. SCTD SHOWERS AND TRW
SHUD BECOME MORE NMRS IN NE OK TOWARD MORNING AS FRONTAL SYSM AND
COOLER AIR ALF MOVE SEWD. PSBL BEGINNINGS TO THE MID LVL CONVECTION
HAVE SHOWN UP ON 88D BETWEEN ICT AND CNU AT 0207Z.
NO CHGS TO LATER PDS OF FCST.
/9
.TUL...NONE.In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 11:15 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-029-OKZ054>071-070600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED DATE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1115 PM CDT WED SEP 6 1995 ...COOLER WEATHER AND A CHANCE OF RAIN COMING... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND PARTS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA TONIGHT. AT 1115 PM...THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE CONFINED TO THE EXTREME NORTHERN PARTS OF OSAGE AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES. AREAS NORTH OF BARTLESVILLE AND PAWHUSKA WERE RECEIVING RAIN. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF GUSTY WINDS...AS WELL AS FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN EXTREME NORTHERN OKLAHOMA WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS DEVELOPING AHEAD OF A STRONG FRONTAL SYSTEM. AT 11 PM...THE COLD FRONT WAS MOVING INTO EXTREME NORTHERN KANSAS. TEMPERATURES BEHIND THE FRONT WERE FALLING INTO THE 50S AND 60S. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL GRADUALLY SPREAD SOUTHWARD ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS TONIGHT. SCATTERED SHOWERS WILL MOVE INTO THE TULSA AREA AROUND 300 AM...AND INTO THE FAYETTEVILLE ARKANSAS AREA AFTER 500 AM. THE COLD FRONT WILL BRING NORTH WINDS AND COOLER AIR TO EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS ON THURSDAY. THE FRONT WILL MOVE INTO NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA THURSDAY MORNING...AND THROUGH MOST OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THURSDAY AFTERNOON. IF IT RAINS IN TULSA TONIGHT OR THURSDAY...IT WILL BE THE FIRST DAY SINCE AUGUST 6 THAT MEASURABLE RAIN HAS FALLEN.
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 11:17 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-029-OKZ054>071-070600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1115 PM CDT WED SEP 6 1993 ...COOLER WEATHER AND A CHANCE OF RAIN COMING... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND PARTS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA TONIGHT. AT 1115 PM...THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE CONFINED TO THE EXTREME NORTHERN PARTS OF OSAGE AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES. AREAS NORTH OF BARTLESVILLE AND PAWHUSKA WERE RECEIVING RAIN. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF GUSTY WINDS...AS WELL AS FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN EXTREME NORTHERN OKLAHOMA WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS DEVELOPING AHEAD OF A STRONG FRONTAL SYSTEM. AT 11 PM...THE COLD FRONT WAS MOVING INTO EXTREME NORTHERN KANSAS. TEMPERATURES BEHIND THE FRONT WERE FALLING INTO THE 50S AND 60S. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL GRADUALLY SPREAD SOUTHWARD ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS TONIGHT. SCATTERED SHOWERS WILL MOVE INTO THE TULSA AREA AROUND 300 AM...AND INTO THE FAYETTEVILLE ARKANSAS AREA AFTER 500 AM. THE COLD FRONT WILL BRING NORTH WINDS AND COOLER AIR TO EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS ON THURSDAY. THE FRONT WILL MOVE INTO NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA THURSDAY MORNING...AND THROUGH MOST OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THURSDAY AFTERNOON. IF IT RAINS IN TULSA TONIGHT OR TrHURSDAY...IT WILL BE THE FIRST DAY SINCE AUGUST 6 THAT MEASURABLE RAIN HAS FALLEN.
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 11:19 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-029-OKZ054>071-070600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED DATE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1115 PM CDT WED SEP 6 1995 ...COOLER WEATHER AND A CHANCE OF RAIN COMING... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND PARTS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA TONIGHT. AT 1115 PM...THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE CONFINED TO THE EXTREME NORTHERN PARTS OF OSAGE AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES. AREAS NORTH OF BARTLESVILLE AND PAWHUSKA WERE RECEIVING RAIN. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF GUSTY WINDS...AS WELL AS FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN EXTREME NORTHERN OKLAHOMA WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS DEVELOPING AHEAD OF A STRONG FRONTAL SYSTEM. AT 11 PM...THE COLD FRONT WAS MOVING INTO EXTREME NORTHERN KANSAS. TEMPERATURES BEHIND THE FRONT WERE FALLING INTO THE 50S AND 60S. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL GRADUALLY SPREAD SOUTHWARD ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS TONIGHT. SCATTERED SHOWERS WILL MOVE INTO THE TULSA AREA AROUND 300 AM...AND INTO THE FAYETTEVILLE ARKANSAS AREA AFTER 500 AM. THE COLD FRONT WILL BRING NORTH WINDS AND COOLER AIR TO EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS ON THURSDAY. THE FRONT WILL MOVE INTO NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA THURSDAY MORNING...AND THROUGH MOST OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THURSDAY AFTERNOON. IF IT RAINvS IN TULSA TONIGHT OR THURSDAY...IT WILL BE THE FIRST DAY SINCE AUGUST 6 THAT MEASURABLE RAIN HAS FALLEN.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 40 min |
| Sep 7, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 51 min |
| Sep 7, 1:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 49 min |
| Sep 7, 2:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 3:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Pawnee | 44 min |
| Sep 7, 3:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 49 min |
| Sep 7, 3:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 31 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.