Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 416, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 2, 1995, 8:51 AM CDT for McIntosh County, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 2, 1995, 8:51 AM CDT (13:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 2, 1995, 9:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties McIntosh County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:51 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 12:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 1223 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 665 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 021358 COR SVRTUL OKC091-121-021445- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED...RETRANSMITTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 851 AM CDT MON OCT 2 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA ...MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...NORTHERN PITTSBURG COUNTY AT 845 AM...RADAR INDICATED A SHORT LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR HANNAH TO SCIPIO...MOVING EAST ABOUT 20 MPH. THIS LINE HAS PRODUCED PEA TO DIME SIZED HAIL NEAR VERNON. RAIFORD... EUFAULA...AND INDIANOLA ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 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 EME8RGENCY. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR WATER ON ROADWAYS AND NEVER DRIVE ONTO A FLOODED ROAD. KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS. &
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 Oct 2, 8:21 AM CDT, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 2, 8:21 AM CDT, 30 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 809 AM CDT MON OCT 2 1995 UPDATED ZNS FOR PCP HEADED INTO FA. TRW HAS INCREASED ON LEADING EDGE OF bAREA AND LUKS LIKE IT WILL MOVE INTO W ZNS THIS MORN. UPPED POPS TO 70-80% IN W ZNS AND ADDED AT LEAST CHC POPS TO OTR ZNS. ALSO LOWERED MAXES A CAT MOST ZNS. /13 .TUL...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 2, 8:41 AM CDT, 10 minutes before
OKZ071-021415- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 841 AM CDT MON OCT 2 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO MCINTOSH COUNTY... AT 835 AM...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST MCINTOSH COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS VERNON...HANNAH...AND RAIFORD BY 9 AM. IT WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 10:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 27 min |
| Oct 2, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 49 min |
| Oct 2, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 30 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.