Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 414, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 30, 1995, 6:38 PM CDT for McIntosh County, Muskogee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 30, 1995, 6:38 PM CDT (23:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 30, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 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, 11.6 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
- 977 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -219 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 899 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 367 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 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 302340 RRA SVRTUL OKC091-101-010030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 638 PM CDT SAT SEP 30 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA ...NORTHERN MCINTOSH COUNTY...SOUTHERN MUSKOGEE COUNTY AT 640 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SMALL LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWESTERN MUSKOGEE COUNTY AND NORTHWESTERN MCINTOSH COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. OKTAHA AND CHECOTAH ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND 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 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 Sep 30, 3:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 30, 3:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 345 AM CDT SAT SEP 30 1995 THE COLD FRONT MOVING INTO ERN OK NOW WILL MAKE IT THRU NW AR AND MOST OF ERN OK DURING THE EVENING AND NIGHT...AND TO MCCURTAIN COUNTY BY MORNING. WINDS ARE SHIFTING TO SW AHEAD OF THE FRONT AND WEAKENING ANY CONVERGENCE. STILL...A LINE OF SHOWERS/TSHWRS HAS DEVELOPED FROM CREEK TO NOWATA COUNTY. XPC THIS LINE TO BE ALL THE PCPN ASSOCD WITH THE FRONT. WILL TRY TO TIME THE LINE TO MAKE THE ZONE FORECASTS FOR TONIGHT. GOOD MOISTURE IS STREAMING NEWD AHEAD OF THE FRONT...AND IS SHOWN IN MSTR CONVERGENCE. SO...MOS POPS WILL BE TOO LOW AND WILL ADJUST UP...EXPECTING A BROKEN LINE RW/TRW POSSIBLY DMSHG AFT SUNSET. MOS TEMPS LOOK REASONABLE AND WILL STAY CLOSE TO THEM WITH VERY LITTLE ADJUSTMENT. PRELIM NMBRS TUL UB 058/079 053/080 058 021000 FSM UB 062/083 055/081 060 025-00 MLC UB 060/080 056/082 060 024-0-* BVO UB 054/079 051/079 XXX 02-000 IDB BB 064/084 061/081 XXX 02420- FYV UB 058/078 050/077 XXX 025000 BYV UB 058/078 048/077 XXX 025000 /02 .TUL...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 30, 2:05 PM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before
OKKZ054>077-ARZ001-002-010-011-019-029-011200- EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 205 PM CDT SAT SEP 30 1995 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER ALL OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. THE TAIL OF AN UPPER ATMOSPHERIC DISTURABANCE MOVING ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS WILL BRUSH EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THIS DISTURBANCE WILL COMBINE WITH A COLD FRONT THAT WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA AND A MODERATELY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE TO PRODUCE A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. AT THIS TIME...IT APPEARS THE WIND PROFILE ALOFT DOES NOT SUPPORT A THREAT FOR TORNADOES. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE STORMS IN THE AREA LATE THIS AF6TERNOON AND EVENING AND BE PREPARED FOR ACTIVATION.
Special weather statement, Sep 30, 6:36 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
OKZ068-010015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 636 PM CDT SAT SEP 30 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS CHEROKEE COUNTY... AT 635 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SMALL LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER FAR WESTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY...WEST OF HULBERT... MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL TRACK ACROSS CHEROKEE COUNTY...INCLUDING THE TAHLEQUAH AREA...THROUGH 730 PM. RADAR INDICATES THAT HEAVY RAIN AND 30 TO 50 MPH WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. IF FURTHER INTENSIFICATION OCCURS...A WARNING MAY BE NEEDED.
Special weather statement, Sep 30, 6:37 PM CDT, 1 minute before
OKZ068-010015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 636 PM CDT SAT SEP 30 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS CHEROKEE COUNTY... AT 635 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SMALL LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER FAR WESTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY...WEST OF HULBERT... MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL TRACK ACROSS CHEROKEE COUNTY...INCLUDING THE TAHLEQUAH AREA...THROUGH 730 PM. RADAR INDICATES THAT HEAVY RAIN AND 30 TO 50 MPH WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. IF FURTHER INTENSIFICATION OCCURS...A WARNING MAY BE NEEDED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 42 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.