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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Apr 16, 1995, 5:53 PM CDT for Washington County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 1995, 5:53 PM CDT (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1995, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 686 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 596 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 162254 TORTUL OKC147-162330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 553 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY AT 553 PM RADAR AND SPOTTER INDICATE A DEVELOPING TORNADO JUST EAST OF AVANT. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE STORM WILL MOVE INTO EXTREME SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY. PERSONS IN AND NEAR RAMONA AND VERA SHOULD MOVE 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 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. WATCH FOR SIGNS OF DEVELOPING STORMS. LARGE HAILSTONES AND UNUSUALLY LOW SWIRLING CLOUDS ARE MANY TIMES SEEN NEAR DEVELOPING TORNADOES. STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND TORNADOES OFTEN PRODUCE A LOUD ROARING SOUND THAT CAN BE HEARD IN THE VICINITY OF STORMS. FREQUENT AnND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING OCCURS WITH MOST SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
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, 5:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 36 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.