Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 1995, 4:43 PM CDT for Craig County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 1995, 4:43 PM CDT (21:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Craig County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 1331 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 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 242145 SVRTUL OKC035-242230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 443 PM CDT MON APR 24 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...SOUTHERN CRAIG COUNTY AT 441 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTO MILES 5 MILES NORTH OF WHITE OAK. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE CITY OF VINITA IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. 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 Apr 24, 3:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 24, 3:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 335 PM CDT MON APR 24 1995 INX 88D SHOWS AREA OF HIGH BASED RWS AND FEW TRW WITH MUCH OF THE ACTIVITY CONCENTRATED OVR N CENT OK NEAR WK MCON AXIS. WL CONT MENTION OF SHOWERS AND TRW ACROSS MOST OF FA AS S/W MOVES THIS EVENING. ATM PLAN ON KEEP R CHS AT 20 PCT OR LESS. SUBSIDENCE AND LOSS OF HTG SHUD ALLOW FOR ACTIVITY TO DISSIPATE AFT SUNSET WITH SKIES CLRNG. TEMPS WL BE COOL AGAIN TONIGHT AS WINDS LIGHT WINDS SHUD PREVAIL. FWC MINS LOOK GUD. MDLS ARE CONSISTENT WITH BRINGING NXT SYS FROM THE PAC NW INTO CENT ROCKIES ON TUE AND INTO CENT PLAINS ON WED, WX ON TUE SHUD BE QUIET ALTHO GRAD SHUD BEGIN TO TIGHTEN ACROSS NW PART OF FA DURING THE AFTN. LOW FLOW CONTS TO INCREASE INTO WED MORNING AS BOTH ETA/NGM PROG 40-50 KNTS H8 FLOW ACROSS AREA WED MRNG. STRONG WAA SHUD CONTRIBUTE TO GUD QVEC CONVERGENCE ACROSS NE OK BY 12Z WED SO WL MENTION SLGT CHC POPS. LOW LVL MOISTURE NOT THAT ABUNDANT BUT WITH SIGNIFICANT STRENGTH OF UPR SYS...WL GO WITH 40-50 POPS ON WED. ...10... TUL 043/075 056/068 044 1025 FSM 041/076 051/076 045 2014 MLC 041/076 056/074 045 2024 BVO 039/073 051/069 XXX -025 FYV 039/073 051/069 XXX 2015 IDB 042/077 050/076 XXX 1014 .TUL...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 24, 1:02 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-029-OKZ054>077-251200- EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 100 PM CDT MON APR 24 1995 NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA OR NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THROUGH TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS PARTS OF THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING...BUT THEY ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. A WEAK COLD FRONT WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST INTO NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. AN UPPER LEVEL WEATHER SYSTEM WAS MOVING EAST FROM WESTERN OKLAHOMA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON NEAR THE COLD FRONT AS THE UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM APPROACHES. COLD AIR IN THE MID AND UPPER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE MAY LEAD TO ONE OR TWO STRONG STORMS THAT PRODUCE SMALL HAIL. THE LACK OF SIGNIFICANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL KEEP ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP BELOW SEVERE LEVELS. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL DISSIPxATE BY 900 PM AS THE UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM MOVES EASTWARD.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 41 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.