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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Tulsa, OK

January 17, 1995Okmulgee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 17, 1995, 12:17 AM CST for Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 24 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 17, 1995, 12:17 AM CST (06:17 UTC)
Expired: Jan 17, 1995, 12:41 AM CST
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Okmulgee County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:19 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 779 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 285 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 281 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KTUL 170618 RRA
SVRTUL
OKC101-111-170700-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1217 AM CST TUE JAN 17 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  100 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONSS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
 
   ...WESTERN MUSKOGEE COUNTY
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...EASTERN OKMULGEE COUNTY
 
AT 1215 AM...TULSA RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES
NORTHEAST OF SCHULTER. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
 
 
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 Jan 16, 8:38 PM CST, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 16, 8:38 PM CST, 3 hours 39 minutes before

FPUS3 KTUL 170238
AFDTUL

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
838 PM CST MON JAN 16 1995

SCTD RW HAVE DVLPD IN CNTRL OK PAST 2 HRS AS STG DYNAMIC LIFTG
FROM WRN KS SHORTWV MOVES INTO AREA. OK MESONET SHOWS MOIST AXIS
ACRS CNTRL OK...BUT MSTR ABV SFC ON OUN AND FWD SNDGS NOT THAT
IMPRESSIVE. STG SYNOPTIC SCALE LIFT WL CONT TO OVERCOME LACK OF
DEEP MSTR AND SCTD RW SHUD CONT TO DVLP...WITH GREATEST COVG
MOVG FROM NORTH CNTRL OK INTO ERN KS TONITE. HAVE ALSO SEEN
A FEW LTG STRIKES WITH ACTIVITY IN CNTRL OK ON COMPUTER LTG
GRAPHIC...SO WL CONT TO MENTION THUNDER AS COOLG ALF HELPS
DESTABILIZATION.

WL INCREASE THE POPS IN 1ST PERIOD ZNS TO ACCT FOR CURRENT
RADAR TRENDS. DRYLINE/PAC FRONT IN WRN OK NOT MAKING THAT MUCH
EWD PROGRESS...BUT A SUBTLE WSHFT TO SW WNDS SHUD OCCUR IN MY
WRN ZNS AFTR MIDNITE. CANADIAN FRONT IS STILL IN WRN KS JUST NW
OF DDC AND RSL...AND WL NOT MAKE IT INTO ERN OK TIL TUES. LUKS LIKE
A VRY MILD NITE TONITE. NO CHGS TO LATER PDS OF FCST.

                                          /9

.TUL...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 16, 11:14 PM CST, 1 hour 3 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1114 PM CST MON JAN 16 1995

REPORTS FROM THURSDAY NIGHT JANUARY 12 1995

TIME (CST)     COUNTY/STATE     EVENT

1112 PM        TULSA/OK         DIME SIZE HAIL IN TULSA AT INTERSECTION
                                OF 71ST AND RIVERSIDE

Local storm report, Jan 16, 11:15 PM CST, 1 hour 2 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1114 PM CST MON JAN 16 1995

REPORTS FROM THURSDAY NIGHT JANUARY 12 1995

TIME (CST)     COUNTY/STATE     EVENT

1112 PM        TULSA/OK         DIME SIZE HAIL IN TULSA AT INTERSECTION
                                OF 71ST AND RIVERSIDE

Local storm report, Jan 16, 11:39 PM CST, 38 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
1139 PM CST MON JAN 16 1995

REPORTS FROM THURSDAY NIGHT JANUARY 12 1995

TIME (CST)     COUNTY/STATE     EVENT

1125 PM        ROGERS/OK        AMATEUR RADIO REPORT OF DIME SIZE HAIL
                                AND 45 TO 50 MPH WIND AT CATOOSA.

Local storm report, Jan 16, 11:41 PM CST, 36 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
1139 PM CST MON JAN 16 1995

REPORTS FROM THURSDAY NIGHT JANUARY 12 1995

TIME (CST)     COUNTY/STATE     EVENT

1125 PM        ROGERS/OK        AMATEUR RAhDIO REPORT OF DIME SIZE HAIL
                                AND 45 TO 50 MPH WIND AT CATOOSA.

Special weather statement, Jan 17, 12:07 AM CST, 10 minutes before

OKZ056>071-170715-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1207 AM CST TUE JAN 17 1995

...THUNDERSTORMS WEAKENING ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA...

AT 1205 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM VINITA TO COWETA TO HENRYETTA. THE LINE WAS
ABOUT 20 MILES WIDE AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN WEAKENING DURING THE PAST HALF HOUR. SOME OF THE
STONGER STORMS MAY STILL PRODUCE PEA SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40
MILES AN HOUR.

HOWEVER...AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS STILL POSSIBLE EARLY THIS
MORNING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF
EASTERN OKLAHOMA UNTIL 400 AM.

Special weather statement, Jan 17, 12:08 AM CST, 9 minutes before

OKZ056>071-170715-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1207 AM CST TUE JAN 17 1995

...THUNDERSTORMS WEAKENING ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA...

AT 1205 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM VINITA TO COWETA TO HENRYETTA. THE LINE WAS
ABOUT 20 MILES WIDE AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN WEAKENING DURING THE PAST HALF HOUR. SOME OF THE
STONGER STORMS MAY STILL PRODUCE PEA SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40
MILES AN HOUR.

HOWEVER...AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS STILL POSSIBLE EARLY THIS
MORNING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF
EASTERN OKLAHOMA UN*TIL 400 AM.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 16, 10:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	48 min
Jan 16, 11:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers, Wagoner	40 min
Jan 17, 12:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	43 min
Jan 17, 12:36 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Wagoner	35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1995 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.