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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 234, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 26, 1996Creek County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1996, 9:00 PM CDT for Creek County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 30 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
May 26, 1996, 9:00 PM CDT (02:00 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1996, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Creek County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 26, 9:01 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52Mannford, OK
May 26, 9:01 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52Mannford, 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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 120 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1996-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2217 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1996-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 274 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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, 8:34 PM CDT, 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 8:34 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
830 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996

STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS AFFECTING THE AREA AND VARIOUS HARDWARE
PROBLEMS NOT HELPING AT ALL.  NO UPPER AIR OR SFC MAPS WERE
AVAILABLE TO ANALYZE TONIGHT. RADAR AND SATELLITE TRENDS OVER THE
LAST FEW HOURS SHOWS THAT MOST OF THE STORMS WILL TRACK OVER THE
NRN HALF OF THE AREA THROUGH THE EVENING BUT MAY DEVELOP S AFTER
AROUND MIDNIGHT. STORMS THAT TRIED TO DEVELOP FURTHER SOUTH OVER
NTX DISSIPATED. 00Z MAPS AND MESONET ANALYSES SHOW THE DRY LINE
STILL OVER WRN OK...SO NEW ACTIVITY OVER NW OK A GOOD POSSIBILITY
TONIGHT. MAPS LI REMAINS AROUND -6 OVER ALL OF ERN OK SO RAINFALL
AMOUNTS NOT VERY HIGH WITH STORMS MOVING AT 40+ MPH SO FFW NOT
REQUIRED TONIGHT. WILL KEEP SVR GOING IN ALL ZONES. /26

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 8:45 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
840 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996

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

0746 PM    4 NE TALALA               OK   TORNADO
05/26/96   ROGERS                         REPORTED BY NOWATA PD.

0802 PM    2 E NOWATA                OK   TORNADO
05/26/96   NOWATA                         REPORTED BY .NOWATA PD.

0818 PM    6NW CENTRAILIA            OK   TORNADO
05/26/96   CRAIG                          REPORTED BY CRAIG CD.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage, Pawnee45 min
May 26, 7:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSARogers, Tulsa, Washington54 min
May 26, 7:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSANowata43 min
May 26, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage, Pawnee48 min
May 26, 7:44 PM CDTTornado WarningTSANowata, Rogers31 min
May 26, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage45 min
May 26, 8:06 PM CDTTornado WarningTSANowata39 min
May 26, 8:13 PM CDTTornado WarningTSACraig47 min
May 26, 8:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWashington54 min
May 26, 8:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek28 min
May 26, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSANowata, Rogers42 min
May 26, 9:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSARogers, Tulsa48 min
May 26, 9:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSANowata, Rogers54 min
May 26, 9:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig52 min
May 26, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMayes45 min
May 26, 10:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOttawa58 min
May 26, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig49 min
May 26, 11:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOttawa43 min
May 26, 11:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSATulsa45 min
May 27, 12:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee, Wagoner52 min
May 27, 12:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee44 min
May 27, 1:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee, Sequoyah52 min
May 27, 1:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh, Pittsburg40 min
May 27, 1:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee31 min
May 27, 1:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair43 min
May 27, 2:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSABenton, Washington60 min
May 27, 3:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMadison40 min
May 27, 4:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMadison31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1996Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.