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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 26, 1996Osage County, Pawnee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1996, 7:42 PM CDT for Osage County, Pawnee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 48 min. 3 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: May 26, 1996, 7:42 PM CDT (00:42 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 1996, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:34 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
May 26, 7:50 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 56	Jennings, OK
May 26, 8:10 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Pawhuska, OK
May 26, 8:10 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Wynona, 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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 159 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: 2217 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1164 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 274 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 326 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 4.0
Supercell composite: 16.9

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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 26, 2:52 PM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:52 PM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
245 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996

TSTMS DVLPG IN ERN TX PNHNDL ERY THIS AFTN.  XPCT ACTVTY TO BCM
MORE NMRS BY LT AFTN ALG DRYLN.  ISOLD TSTMS CUD DVLP AHD OF DRYLN
IN EOK/NWAR THIS EVE BUT XPCT MOST OF THE ACTVTY TO REACH FA LT
THIS EVE AND TNGT.  SVR WX PARAMETERS WL DISCUSD IN DY1 OTLK AND WL
NOT ELABORATE.  ETA/NGM PUSH DRYLN RPDLY EWD.  MAY SLO THE MVMNT
SLGTLY BUT XPCT LN OF TSTMS TO BE IN NWRN AR OR XTRM ERN OK BY 12Z
MON.  MDLS INDCT DRY SLOT ROTATING INTO FA BUT SOME WRAPARND MOISTR
INDCTD JUST NORTH OF FA MON.  WL INDCT TSTMS ENDG ERY MON BUT MAY
NEED TO WATCH FOR PSBL REDVLPMNT AS UPR LO WL BRING COLD AIR ALOFT.
WL GO WITH A DRY FCST AFTWDS WITH WRMR DAYTIME TEMPS FOR TUES.  /11

PRELIMS
TUL 067/086 065/089 7310
FSM 067/085 063/088 54-0
MLC 067/088 064/091 53-0
BVO 064/086 062/089 7210
FYV 065/082 062/084 6410
IDB 067/086 066/089 44-0

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

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	45 min
May 26, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa, Washington	54 min
May 26, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata	43 min
May 26, 7:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Nowata, Rogers	31 min
May 26, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	45 min
May 26, 8:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Nowata	39 min
May 26, 8:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Craig	47 min
May 26, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	54 min
May 26, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	28 min
May 26, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Rogers	42 min
May 26, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	30 min
May 26, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa	48 min
May 26, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Rogers	54 min
May 26, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig	52 min
May 26, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	45 min
May 26, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Ottawa	58 min
May 26, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig	49 min
May 26, 11:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Ottawa	43 min
May 26, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	45 min
May 27, 12:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Wagoner	52 min
May 27, 12:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee	44 min
May 27, 1:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Sequoyah	52 min
May 27, 1:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Pittsburg	40 min
May 27, 1:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee	31 min
May 27, 1:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	43 min
May 27, 2:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	60 min
May 27, 3:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	40 min
May 27, 4:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	31 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.