Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 38, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 1995, 5:07 PM CDT for Tulsa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 23 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1995, 5:07 PM CDT (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tulsa County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 2607 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 967 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 353 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 042211 COR TORTUL OKC143-042230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 507 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...SOUTHERN TULSA COUNTY AT 505 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF BIXBY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE DEVELOPING TORNADO WITH THIS STORM WILL PASS NEAR THE BIXBY AREA. 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 51 min |
| Jul 4, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee, Tulsa | 53 min |
| Jul 4, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 42 min |
| Jul 4, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 52 min |
| Jul 4, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 48 min |
| Jul 4, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Tulsa, Wagoner | 45 min |
| Jul 4, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 26 min |
| Jul 4, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 38 min |
| Jul 4, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 49 min |
| Jul 4, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 51 min |
| Jul 4, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 47 min |
| Jul 4, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Wagoner | 52 min |
| Jul 4, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware | 58 min |
| Jul 4, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 32 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.