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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 29, 1995Mayes County, Rogers County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 1995, 3:41 AM CDT for Mayes County, Rogers County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 29, 1995, 3:41 AM CDT (08:41 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 1995, 4:30 AM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Mayes County, OK, Rogers County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 1783 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 253 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 
TTAA00 KTUL 290842
SVRTUL
OKC097-131-290930-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
341 AM CDT SAT APR 29 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...MAYES COUNTY...EASTERN ROGERS COUNTY
 
AT 339 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FOYIL. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20
MPH. THE TOWNS OF PRYOR AND ADAIR ARE 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 28, 9:19 PM CDT, 6 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 9:19 PM CDT, 6 hours 22 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
915 PM CDT FRI APR 28 1995

WL MAKE NO SIG CHGS THIS UPDAT. OUN SNDG SHOWED GUD LO LVL MSTR
BLO STG CAP...WITH VRY STEEP LAPSE RATES ABOVE THE CAP. AREA SNDS
AND EVE PROFILER DATA INDICATE IMPRESSIVE LO LVL WND SHEAR
ASSOCIATED WITH WAA. STILL EXPECT SHOWERS AND STORMS TO DVLP AND
BECOME MORE NUMEROUS TONITE AS LOW LVL WAA ENHANCES LIFT AHD OF
WK UPR SYSM. STRONGEST STORMS LIKELY TO OCCUR NR THE SFC WARMFRONT
WHICH EXTDD FROM N OF GAG TO EAST OF SPS AT 02Z.

IF WIDESPREAD CONVECTION DOES NOT OCCUR TONITE OR EARLY SAT...THEN
STAGE COULD BE SET FOR ROUND OF SEVERE STORMS IN FA SAT AFTN AS
COLD FRONT NOW HIN WRN KS MOVES SE.
                                                     /9
.TUL...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 29, 3:04 AM CDT, 37 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
300 AM CDT SAT APR 29 1995

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

232 AM     HOMINY             f       OK   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/29/95   OSAGE

255 AM     AVANT                     OK   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/29/95   OSAGE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 29, 1:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	55 min
Apr 29, 1:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Washington	66 min
Apr 29, 1:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata	66 min
Apr 29, 2:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Nowata, Osage, Washington	3 hr
Apr 29, 2:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Tulsa	51 min
Apr 29, 3:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers, Washington	42 min
Apr 29, 3:56 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Pawnee, Rogers, Tulsa	3 hr
Apr 29, 4:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Mayes	52 min
Apr 29, 5:09 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Creek	3 hr
Apr 29, 5:09 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Wagoner	3 hr
Apr 29, 5:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	48 min
Apr 29, 6:10 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Muskogee	3 hr
Apr 29, 7:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	49 min
Apr 29, 7:36 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	3 hr
Apr 29, 9:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	47 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.