Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 1996, 11:20 AM CST for Latimer County, LeFlore County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 40 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
- Feb 27, 1996, 11:20 AM CST (17:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 1996, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 11:45 AM CST | Hail 1 | Fanshawe, 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 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1660 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 97 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KTUL 271721 RRA SVRTUL OKC077-079-271800- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1120 AM CST TUE FEB 27 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL NOON CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...SOUTHEASTERN LATIMER COUNTY...LE FLORE COUNTY AT 1118 AM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TALIHINA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. TALIHINA AND BENGAL ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.
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 Feb 27, 10:20 AM CST, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 27, 10:20 AM CST, 1 hour before
FPUS3 KTUL 271620 AFDTUL EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1020 AM CST TUE FEB 27 1996 SEVERE TSTMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN THE COLD AIR IN SE OK AND TORNADO WATCH HAS JUST BEEN ISSUED FOR SE OK AND WEST CENTRAL AR. WILL END PRECIP FROM THE NW THIS AFTERNOON. MID AND HIGH CLOUDS MAY BE SLOW TO CLEAR THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL DELAY CLEARING IN SOME AREAS UNTIL THIS EVENING. WILL ADJUST TEMPS BASED ON CURRENT TRENDS. NO CHANGES TO LATER PERIODS ATTM. .TUL... OK...NONE. AR...NONE. PLATE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 9:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 45 min |
| Feb 27, 10:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 54 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.