Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 1995, 8:16 PM CDT for Adair County, Delaware County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 1995, 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 1995, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adair County, OK, Delaware County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:17 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
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 801 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 200117 SVRTUL OKC001-041-200200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 816 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA ...NORTHERN ADAIR COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...DELAWARE COUNTY AT 816 PM...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 3 MILES WEST OF JAY TO SCRAPER. THE LINE WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS WITH GUSTS UP TO 65 MPH WILL OCCUR WITH THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SEEK SHE@LTER 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 Apr 19, 3:40 PM CDT, 4 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 3:40 PM CDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 330 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995 SFC LOW CONTINUES TO DVLP ACROS SRN TX PH. WARM FRONT XTDS E OF LOW ACROSS NRN TX WITH 60 TO 70 DEGREE DWPTS S FRONT ACROSS E HLF OF TX. WITH BEST PRES FALLS NOW INDCTD OVR CNTRL OK...LOW SHD TRCK NE INTO CNTRL OK DURING THE NIGHT WITH DRYLINE XTDG S OF LOW. WDSPRD CONVECTION HAS DVLPD ACROSS NE TX INTO SRN OK DURING THE AFTERNOON NORTH OF THE FRONT... AND THIS SHD CONT TO DVLP AND SPREAD NE ACROSS MUCH OF ERN OK AND NW ARK THIS EVENING AS WARM FNT TO S LIFTS NWD. AM EXPECTING WARM FRONT TO TRACK NORTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA BRINGING THE UNSTABLE AIRMASS TO THE SOUTH NWD. ETA CAPES PROGGED TO BE IN THE 1000 TO 1400 J/KG RANGE. IN ADDITION STRONG HELICITIES IN EXCESS OF 300 UNITS ARE PROGGED TO DVLP ACROSS THE AREA ESPECIALLY N OF WM FRONT. WITH A STRONG UPPER LEVEL JET WITH WIND SPEEDS IN EXCESS OF 100 KTS PROGGED TO MOVE ACROSS OK DURING THE NIGHT...COMBINED WITH INSTABILITY AND HELICITY WD XPCT ANOTHER ROUND OF SVR WX TO DVLP TONIGHT OUT OF TX INTO E OK. THIS WL OCCUR ESPCLY OVR SE OK WHERE THE BEST INSTABILITY WL BE LOCATED. AS CONSIDERABLY DRYER AIR MOVES INTO THE AREA BEHIND DRYLINE... SKIES WL CLEAR WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE AREA TWD MORNING...WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ENDING OVR NW ARKANSAS BEFORE 9AM. BROAD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE IN THE UPPER LEVELS LINGERS ACROSS THE PLAINS THROUGH THE NEXT 48 HOURS WITH VORT MAXES PROPOGATING ALONG THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE UPPER LOW. HOWEVER... WITH VERY DRY AIR AND SOUTHWEST WINDS AT THE SURFACE...WOULD XPCT SKIES TO REMAIN MOSTLY CLEAR THROUGH FRIDAY. /16 TUL 053/077 048/072 045 7000 FSM 055/078 048/074 048 8200 MLC 055/078 049/074 049 8000 BVO 050/076 048/070 XXX 7000 FYV 054/078 049/072 XXX 8300 IDB 059/080 050/078 XXX 8000 4M1 054/077 047/071 XXX 8000 .TUL...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 52 min |
| Apr 19, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 42 min |
| Apr 19, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 51 min |
| Apr 19, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 41 min |
| Apr 19, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Muskogee | 52 min |
| Apr 19, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore | 44 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.