Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1995, 12:16 PM CDT for Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 22, 1995, 12:16 PM CDT (17:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1995, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pittsburg County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 999 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 579 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 221716 SVRTUL OKC121-221815- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1216 PM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...PITTSBURG COUNTY AT 1215PM...RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF ASHLAND. IT WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. PEOPLE IN ASHLAND...HAYWOOD...ARPELAR... SCIPIO AND MCALESTER SHOULD GO TO SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THIS STORM PASSES. 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 T@HIS 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 22, 10:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 10:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1000 AM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 SCT RW/TRW FORMING OVR CNTRL OK ATTM...JUST N OF STG H85 FNT ALG RED RVR AND ALG NOSE OF JET MAX POKING INTO SE OK EVIDENT ON WATER VAPOR LOOP. WL ADJUST POPS TO BETTER FIT CURRENT TRENDS...WITH LIKELY POPS OVR N AND HIGH CHC POPS FOR S. MESONET TEMPS SHOWS M/U 40S OVR NE OK/NW AR...SO WL DROP AFTN TEMPS A LTL DUE TO STIFF NE WNDS AND CLD CVR. TEMPS OVR SRN SECTIONS WL BE TRICKY AS CLD CVR REMAINS SCT ATTM. 12Z ETA SHOWS BULLSEYE OF H7 VVEL OVR CNTRL OK BY 00Z THEN MVG ACRS NW AR 06-12Z. GD OVERRUNNING EVENT FOR TONIGHT AS H85 DWPTS ARND +12 TO +15 C OVERRIDE COOL DOME OF AIR OVR FA. ALTHO FFG VALUES ARE LOW OVR SERN ZNS...FEEL HEAVIEST PCPN WL REMAIN SE OF FA CLOSER TO SFC FNT/DIFFLUENT THICKNESS REGION. HOWEVER...WL RE-EVALUATE SITN ONCE GRIDDED DATA ARRIVES. .TUL...NONE. HODGES
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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.