Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 39, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT for Tulsa County, Wagoner County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1995, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 176 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 042233 TORTUL OKC143-145-042315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 530 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...SOUTHEASTERN TULSA COUNTY...WESTERN WAGONER COUNTY AT 528 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO IN THE BIXY AREA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE DEVELOPING TORNADO WILL PASS TO THE SOUTH OF THE BROKEN ARROW AREA AND NEAR THE ONETA 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 LTO 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, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 23 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, 5:49 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 |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.