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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 412, NWS Tulsa, OK

September 12, 1995Osage County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 12, 1995, 12:58 AM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 12, 1995, 12:58 AM CDT (05:58 UTC)
Expired
Sep 12, 1995, 1:45 AM CDT
In force
47 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 06:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1995-09-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 107 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 00:00Z on 1995-09-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 153 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
107 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-166 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
671 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
210 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 120559 RRA
SVRTUL
OKC113-120645-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1258 AM CDT TUE SEP 12 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  145 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...CENTRAL AND EASTERN OSAGE COUNTY
 
AT 1258 AM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
EXTENDING FROM FORAKER TO JUST WEST OF HOMINY...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
HOMINY...PAWHUSKA...AND WYNONA ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS.
 
 
DAMAGING WINDS WITH GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS.  IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SEEK SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY IN THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING OR HOME.  STAY
AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND WINDOWS.  IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME
YOU SHOULD MOVE TO A MORE SUBSTANTIAL STRUCTURE IF ONE IS NEARBY.

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 11, 9:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 11, 9:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
900 PM CDT MON SEP 11 1995

LN OF STG/SVR TSTMS EXTNDG FRM KS INTO ERN PART OF OK/TX PNHNDL
CONT MOVG E/ESE THIS EVNG.  CURRENT POPS OF 30-40 PCT ACRS AREA
STILL LOOK REASONABLE AS STMS XPCTD TO EVENTUALLY WKN AS THEY
APPRCH AREA LATER ON TNGT.  MNWHL...CLDS HAVE GENRLLY CLRD OVR
ERN OK THIS EVNG...AND ARE ALSO CLRG ACRS NW AR.  SATL SHOWS
SOME LOW CLDS LINGERING OVR N-CNTL OK...AND ALSO SOME MID/HI
CLDS STREAMING AT US FRM THE SW.  WL PROBABLY OPT FOR PTCLDY
SKIES REST OF THE NGT MOST SXNS...OTHRWS WL MAKE A FEW OTHR
MINOR ADJSTMNTS AND CONT TO WATCH STMS TO THE WEST.

...04...

.TUL...NONE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 12, 12:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage, Pawnee50 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.