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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 193, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 6, 1996Osage County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1996, 7:24 AM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 51 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 6, 1996, 7:24 AM CDT (12:24 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 1996, 8:15 AM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Osage County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 233 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -369 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1267 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 273 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 338 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 May 5, 9:18 PM CDT, 10 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 9:18 PM CDT, 10 hours 6 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
900 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 1996

LAST NITE ABT THIS TIME...FIRST ECHOS OF STILL ONGOING MCS
NOW REACHING E COAST WERE DVLPNG IN NW KS. SFC FNT NOW
ORIENTATED DIFFERENTLY SW/NE ACRS OK BUT IS STNRY WITH
SFC LOW IN SW OK. FNT EXTNDS BACK INTO NE CORNER OF NM
AND LATEST SAT PICS SHOW SOME ENHANCED CLD TOPS NEAR
CO/NM BORDER AHEAD OF UPPER DISTURBANCE MOVING INTO
NW NM. COULD THIS BE THE BEGINNING OF ANOTHER MCS THAT
CUD TRAK THRU NW/NC OK AND INTO E OK BY ERLY MON MORN.
THIS EVES UA ANAL SHOWS BEST H85 TADV IN TX/OK PAN HANDLES SO THIS
SEEMS LIKE A GUD BET. QUESTION IS TIMING OF PCP...FOR TONIGHT PERIOD
OR MONDAY MORNING PERIOD.

ALSO STILL HAVE A FEW RW ALNG RED RIVER ASSOC WITH SUB-TROP DISTURB
MOVING THRU TX. THESE MAY AFFECT ZN 77 LATER ON SO WILL ADD SOME CHC
POPS THERE TONIGHT.
AIRMASS HAS GOTTEN PLENTY JUICY WITH MESONET SHOWING LOWER 70S
DWPTS ACROSS SE/EC OK...BUT CAP HELD OUT FOR THE MOST PART
ONLY ALLOWING A FEW ISO RW LATE THIS PM.

WILL WAIT TO SEE NEW ETA BEFORE MAKING FINAL UPDATE DECISION ON POPS
BUT WILL MOST LIKELY KEEP CHC POPS GOING TONIGHT AND UP POPS FOR
EXPECTED MCS MONDAY MORNING. WILL ALSO HAVE TO TINKER WITH WINDS
WITH FNT HALF WAY THRU NE OK.  /13

.TUL...
OK...NONE.
AR...NONE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 6, 6:01 AM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 11:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	47 min
May 6, 12:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	48 min
May 6, 2:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner	51 min
May 6, 4:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee, Okmulgee	56 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.