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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 19, 1995Pittsburg County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 1995, 9:49 PM CDT for Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 19, 1995, 9:49 PM CDT (02:49 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 1995, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Pittsburg County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 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.

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: 641 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 415 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 440 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 200250
SVRTUL
OKC121-200330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
949 PM CDT WED APR 19 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 SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...PITTSBURG COUNTY
 
AT 948 PM A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR STUART TO
NEAR 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ASHLAND. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT
50 MPH. SCIPIO...MCALESTER AND KIOWA ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS.
 
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS CAN BE EXPECTED
IN THE WARNED AREA.
 
DAMAGING WINDS WITH GUSTS UP TO 70 MPH WILL OCCUR WITH THIS LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS.  IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SEEK SHELTER
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, 8:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 8:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
845 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995

STORMS BEGINNING TO BECOME WIDESPREAD OVR FA AS STG UPR SYSM APCHS.
FOR UPDAT...WL BOOST ALL POPS INTO 80-100 RANGE AND MENTION SVR
IN ALL ZNS. PROFILER WINDS INDICATE EXCELLENT SHEAR BETWEEN 1 AND 2
KM WHICH SHUD SUPPORT SOME MESOCYCLONES. LUKS LIKE A BUSY NITE.....

                                     /9
.TUL...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 19, 8:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
841 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995

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

0836 PM    2 WEST OF SILOAM SPRINGS  OK   55 MPH WIND GUST
04/19/95   DELAWARE

0840 PM    WEST SILOAM SPRINGS       OK   1.25 INCH HAIL
04/19/95   DELAWARE

Local storm report, Apr 19, 9:20 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
917 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995

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

0851 PM    GENTRY                    AR   65 MPH WINDS
04/19/95   BENTON

0906 PM    4 WEST OF GENTRY          AR   MOBILE HOMES DAMAGED
04/19/95   BENTON

Local storm report, Apr 19, 9:24 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
922 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995

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

0840 PM    WEST SILOAM SPRINGS       OK   HIGH WINDS BLEW DOWN A WALL
04/19/95   DELAWARE                       IN NEW FIRE DEPT.  NUMEROUS
                                          TREES AND POWER LINES DOWNED.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 19, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Delaware	44 min
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, 9:53 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.