Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Apr 17, 1995, 11:53 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Delaware County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 37 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 17, 1995, 11:53 PM CDT (04:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 1995, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cherokee County, OK, Delaware County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 12:10 AM CDT | Tornado F0 | Colcord, OK | Severe thunderstorms moved across eastern Oklahoma during the evening of April 17th. The storms produced a total of 8 tornadoes, as well as large hail and damaging winds. The first five tornadoes all occurred with the same supercell thunderstorm. The first tor |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 750 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 425 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 569 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 180455 TORTUL OKC021-041-180530- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1153 PM CDT MON APR 17 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA ...CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...SOUTHERN DELAWARE COUNTY AT 1152 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF PEGGS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. LEACH AND OAKS 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 40 min |
| Apr 17, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 45 min |
| Apr 17, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 51 min |
| Apr 17, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Tulsa | 43 min |
| Apr 17, 9:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 39 min |
| Apr 17, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 39 min |
| Apr 17, 10:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 36 min |
| Apr 17, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 30 min |
| Apr 17, 10:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 36 min |
| Apr 17, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers, Tulsa | 43 min |
| Apr 17, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 43 min |
| Apr 17, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 43 min |
| Apr 17, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee | 57 min |
| Apr 17, 10:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 10:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Wagoner | 49 min |
| Apr 17, 11:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Okmulgee | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers | 46 min |
| Apr 17, 11:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 40 min |
| Apr 17, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Mayes | 50 min |
| Apr 17, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 50 min |
| Apr 17, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 45 min |
| Apr 17, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 45 min |
| Apr 18, 12:00 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Adair | 30 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.