Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 417, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 2, 1995, 10:33 AM CDT for Haskell County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 2, 1995, 10:33 AM CDT (15:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 2, 1995, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Haskell County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 207 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 021533 RRA SVRTUL OKC061-021600- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1033 AM CDT MON OCT 2 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...EASTERN HASKELL COUNTY AT 10 30 AM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN TULSA INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MCCURTAIN. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORM SHOULD PASS JUST SOUTHEAST OF KEOTA BY 11 AM. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. KEEP TUNED TO TH8IS 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, 10:32 AM CDT, 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 2, 10:32 AM CDT, 1 minute before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1030 AM CDT MON OCT 2 1995 THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN OKLAHOMA APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN INITIATED BY A SHORTWAVE SEEN IN WATOR VAPOR IMAGERY MOVING FROM EASTERN NEW MEXICO INTO WEST TEXAS. THE MODELS INCLUDING THE NEW ETA DO NOT BRING THIS SHORTWAVE THROUGH TIL TONIGHT SO SUSPECT MORE THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THUS...WORDED FORECAST FOR RAIN THIS AFTERNOON FOR ALL AFTERNOON INSTEAD OF JUST EARLY AFTERNOON FOR THE CURRENT ROUND OF STORMS. THE CHANCE OF RAIN WILL DIMINISH TONIGHT AS THE SHORTWAVE MOVES EAST AND COLD FRONT PUSHES SOUTHEAST ACR0OSS THE AREA AND BRINGS DRIER IN DRIER AIR. HAVE A FEELING THIS AFTERNOONS HIGHS ARE TOO WARM...BUT WILL KEEP THEM SINCE THE SUN COULD BREAK OUT FOR A FEW HOURS THIS AFTERNOON. .TUL...NONE. ABBAS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 2, 8:41 AM CDT, 1 hour 52 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, 8:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Pittsburg | 54 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.