Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 1995, 11:16 PM CDT for Latimer County, LeFlore County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 1995, 11:16 PM CDT (04:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 1995, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 200417 SVRTUL OKC077-079-200500- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1116 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...SOUTHEASTERN LATIMER COUNTY...LE FLORE COUNTY AT 1116 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST O$F TALIHINA. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. TALIHINA AND BENGAL ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.
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, 2 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 8:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 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, 2 hours 32 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 DELAWARELocal storm report, Apr 19, 9:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 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 BENTONLocal storm report, Apr 19, 9:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 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.Local storm report, Apr 19, 11:07 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1105 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0916 PM MCALESTER OK 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/19/95 PITTSBURG
1050 PM FORT SMITH AR NUMEROUS REPORTS OF 0.75
04/19/95 SEBASTIAN INCH HAIL AROUND FORT SMITH
AREA BETWEEN 1048 AND
1055 PM
1055 PM VAN BUREN AR 0.75 IN HAIL
04/19/95 SEBASTIANLocal storm report, Apr 19, 11:11 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1110 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0916 PM MCALESTER OK 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/19/95 PITTSBURG
1050 PM FORT SMITH AR NUMEROUS REPORTS OF 0.75
04/19/95 SEBASTIAN INCH HAIL AROUND FORT SMITH
AREA BETWEEN 1048 AND 1055 PM
1055 PM VAN BUREN AR 0.75 IN HAIL
04/19/95 CRAWFORD
...CORRECTED COUNTY IN 1055 PM REPORT...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, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 41 min |
| Apr 19, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Muskogee | 52 min |
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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.