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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 3, 1996Haskell County, Latimer County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 1996, 10:39 PM CST for Haskell County, Latimer County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 51 min. 2 reports 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 3, 1996, 10:39 PM CST (04:39 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 1996, 11:30 PM CST
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 3, 10:55 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Stigler, OK
Apr 3, 11:00 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Panola, OK

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.

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 202 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 662 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1736 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 040440
SVRTUL
OKC061-077-040530-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1039 PM CST WED APR 3 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...HASKELL COUNTY...LATIMER COUNTY
 
A 1038 PM...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST WEST OF
WHITEFIELD TO JUST WEST OF WILBURTON TO 3 MILES WEST OF HIGGINS. THE
LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. STIGLER...WILBURTON...AND RED
OAK ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF STORMS.
 
 
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED
IN THE WARNED AREA.
 
DURING THE STORM MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM LIGHTNING DO NOT USE THE TELEPHONE
OR HAND HELD ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES...UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY.
MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR WATER ON ROADWAYS AND NEVER
DRIVE ONTO A FLOODED ROAD.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 3, 9:18 PM CST, 1 hour 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 9:18 PM CST, 1 hour 21 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
915 PM CST WED APR 3 1996

TRW HAVE INCREASED IN COVERAGE ACRS ERN OK/NW ARK THIS EVE. COLD
FRONT CONTS ITS SWD PUSH WITH GUD PRES RISES IN ITS WAKE. EXPCT FRONT
TO BE ACRS SE CORNER OF OK BY 12Z THURS. SOME SCTD RW/TRW HAVE
OCCURRED BEHIND THE FRONT AHEAD OF THE CNTRL OK SHORTWV...BUT THIS
ACTIVITY LESS INTENSE THAN THE STORMS ALONG THE FRONT.

WL MAKE SOME MODIFICATIONS TO 1ST PD OF ZONES...MAINLY TO INCRS POPS
S OF CURRENT FRONTAL POSITION. NO CHGS TO LATER PDS OF FCST.

                                                   /9
.TUL...
OK...NONE
AR...NONE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 3, 7:59 PM CST, 2 hours 40 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
758 PM CST WED APR 3 1996

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0740 PM    MIAMI              p       OK   .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/96   OTTAWA

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 3, 7:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	52 min
Apr 3, 8:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	29 min
Apr 3, 8:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Wagoner	67 min
Apr 3, 8:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	50 min
Apr 3, 9:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	44 min
Apr 3, 9:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	48 min
Apr 3, 9:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh	47 min
Apr 3, 11:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	52 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.