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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 30, 1995LeFlore County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Apr 30, 1995, 4:32 PM CDT for LeFlore County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 30, 1995, 4:32 PM CDT (21:32 UTC)
Expired
Apr 30, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

County LeFlore County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 237 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1995-04-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1995-04-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
619 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
129 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 302132
TORTUL
OKC079-302200-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
432 PM CDT SUN APR 30 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...SOUTHERN LE FLORE COUNTY
 
AT 430 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST
OF MUSE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. MUSE AND
BIG CEDAR ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
 
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 LOWEST 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 30, 3:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh, Pittsburg49 min
Apr 30, 3:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, Muskogee41 min
Apr 30, 3:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALatimer51 min
Apr 30, 4:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSASequoyah44 min
Apr 30, 4:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore53 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.