Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 24, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 26, 1995, 12:06 PM CDT for Delaware County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 14 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 1995, 12:06 PM CDT (17:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1995, 12:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 14 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Delaware County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 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 261707 TORTUL OKC041-261745- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1206 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...SOUTHEASTERN DELAWARE COUNTY AT 1205 PM...RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLCORD. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. COLCORD IS IN 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 POSSIBLEF. STAY AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET IN A GROUND DEPRESSION.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at May 26, 10:05 AM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 10:05 AM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1005 AM CDT FRI MAY 26 1995 FFA WL BE ISSUED FOR MAINLY NRN AND WRN ZNS THRU TONITE SINCE ACTIVITY MOVG SLOR THAN XPCTD AND IS REDEVELOPING FROM THE WEST. DOPPLER SHOS RAIN ALREADY EXCEEDING 2 INCHES IN CREEK COUNTY. AS ANOTHER STRONG IMPULSE MOVS IN TONITE...BLV AN ADDITIONAL 2 INCHES IS POSSIBLE. TEMPS FROM PREV FCST LUK GUD AS DO WNDS. UNCERTAIN ON WHETHER SHTWV WL AFFECT SERN ZNS BUT BLV THAT IF SKIES BECOME PC THEN THE RELATIVELY WK CAP AS SHOWN ON MORNING SOUNDINGS WL BE BROKEN. THUS WL GO WITH 40-60 POPS AREA-WIDE. .TUL...FFA FOR EOK ZONES 54>67 AND 70/71 THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. /21
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 26, 10:23 AM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
OKZ067-068-070-261630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1021 AM CDT FRI MAY 26 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS MUSKOGEE AND WAGONER COUNTIES... AT 1020 AM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL MUSKOGEE AND WAGONER COUNTIES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. RADAR INDICATES THAT THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 40 MPH...SMALL HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY PRODUCE MINOR STREET FLOODING. PERSONS IN EASTERN MUSKOGEE AND WAGONER COUNTIES AND WESTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER FROM THESE STORMS. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND SHOULD DRIVE WITH CAUTION. FLOODED ROADWAYS SHOULD BE AVOIDED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 1:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek | 14 hr |
| May 26, 11:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 45 min |
| May 26, 11:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 51 min |
| May 26, 11:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 64 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.