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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 194, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 10, 1996Osage County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1996, 4:54 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 10, 1996, 4:54 AM CDT (09:54 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 1996, 5:45 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 09:54 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 272 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: 2240 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1083 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 239 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 9.4

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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 10, 3:34 AM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 3:34 AM CDT, 1 hour 20 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 10, 10:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Wagoner	48 min
May 10, 11:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	36 min
May 10, 11:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	46 min
May 10, 12:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	50 min
May 10, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Mayes	47 min
May 10, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	42 min
May 10, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	26 min
May 10, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee	54 min
May 10, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	45 min
May 10, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers, Wagoner	40 min
May 10, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	35 min
May 10, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	48 min
May 10, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer	49 min
May 10, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	32 min
May 10, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	40 min
May 10, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	37 min
May 10, 6:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Washington	3 hr
May 10, 6:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Washington	28 min
May 10, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Crawford	35 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.