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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 16, 1995Creek County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1995, 9:42 PM CDT for Creek County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 16, 1995, 9:42 PM CDT (02:42 UTC)
Expired: Apr 16, 1995, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Creek County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:46 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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 120 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1535 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 816 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 170244
SVRTUL
OKC037-170330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
942 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...NORTHERN CREEK COUNTY
 
AT 942 PM RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING NORTHERN
CREEK COUNTY AND IT WAS CENTERED 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF OILTON. THIS STORM
WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL HAVE INCREASING POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE
LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. OILTON AND MANFORD ARE IN THE PATH OF THE
STORM.
 
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 EMERGENCY.
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 Apr 16, 9:01 PM CDT, 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 9:01 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
900 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995

TSTMS BGNNG TO FORM A LN ACRS NERN OK THIS EVE.  ALTHO TSTMS HV BEEN
DUMPING TORRENTIAL RAINS IN SPOTS...BLV TSTMS LN WL BGN TO SAG SWD
PERPENDICULAR TO LN AS IT BCMS MORE ORGANIZED.  WL MENTION LCLY HVY
RAINFALL IN PARTS OF EOK ALG AND AHD OF LN...BUT WL NOT ISSUED FFA
AND LET WRNGS AND STATEMENTS HNDL THIS EVENT TNGT.

WL NOT CHG OUTPDS BUT ALL THIS ACTVTY OVRNGT MAY CHG THE ENVIRONMENT
FOR SVR WX MON.  WL JUST HV TO SEE IF ATMOS CAN RELOAD FOR TMRW.

..11..

.TUL...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 16, 4:31 PM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
429 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   ST   EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0428 PM    3 MI SOUTH HWYS 99 & 10   OK   0.88 INCH HAIL
04/16/95   OSAGE

Local storm report, Apr 16, 7:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
735 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   ST   EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0729 PM    CLEVELAND                 OK   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/16/95   PAWNEE

Local storm report, Apr 16, 7:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
745 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   ST   EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0737 PM    CLEVELAND                 OK   1.25 INCH HAIL
04/16/95   PAWNEE

Local storm report, Apr 16, 8:46 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
845 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   ST   EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0709 PM    SKIATOOK                  OK   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/16/95   TULSA                          SEVERAL LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN

0816 PM    2 MI N OF SPERRY          OK   0.75 IN HAIL
04/16/95   TULSA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 16, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	45 min
Apr 16, 7:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Rogers	3 hr
Apr 16, 8:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Osage, Tulsa	3 hr
Apr 16, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	40 min
Apr 16, 8:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Pawnee	3 hr

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.