Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Apr 16, 1995, 5:39 PM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 36 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 1995, 5:39 PM CDT (22:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1995, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Osage County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Avant, OK |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 892 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 622 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 162241 TORTUL OKC113-162315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 539 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...SOUTHEAST OSAGE COUNTY AT 540 PM RADAR AND SPOTTERS INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF AVANT. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. PEOPLE IN AND AROUND AVANT SHOULD GO TO A PLACE OF SAFETY NOW! THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LONWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET IN A GROUND DEPRESSION. KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 58 min |
| Apr 16, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 51 min |
| Apr 16, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 45 min |
| Apr 16, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 22 min |
| Apr 16, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 52 min |
| Apr 16, 5:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Washington | 37 min |
| Apr 16, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.