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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 26, 1996Ottawa County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1996, 10:17 PM CDT for Ottawa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 58 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
May 26, 1996, 10:17 PM CDT (03:17 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1996, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Ottawa County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:21 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 26, 10:27 PM CDTHail 1Miami, 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 90 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1996-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1746 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1996-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 142 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1746 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1110 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
142 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
182 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.1
Supercell composite
10.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 270318
SVRTUL
OKC115-270415-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1017 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...OTTAWA COUNTY
 
AT 1016 PM...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING
FROM 8 MILES NORTH OF COMMERCE TO NEAR WHITE OAK. THE LINE WAS MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. COMMERCE AND MIAMI ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF
STORMS.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH
LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

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, 9:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 9:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
900 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996

STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS AFFECTING THE AREA AND AFOS AND 88D
PROBLEMS NOT HELPING AT ALL.  NO UPPER AIR OR SFC MAPS WERE
AVAILABLE TO ANALYZE TONIGHT. NO PROFILERS EITHER. 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 WILL DEVELOP S AFTER AROUND MIDNIGHT. STORMS THAT TRIED TO
DEVELOP FURTHER SOUTH OVER NTX DISSIPATED EARLIER BUT NEW STORMS
NOW GOING UP ALONG A LINE FROM OKC TO SPS. 00Z MAPS AND MESONET
ANALYSES SHOW THE DRY LINE STILL OVER WRN OK...SO REDEVELOPMENT OUT
WEST A GOOD POSSIBILITY THRU THE NIGHT. MESONET DEWPOINTS 70-75 AND
MAPS LI REMAINS AROUND -6 OVER ALL OF ERN OK. WILL KEEP SVR GOING
IN ALL ZONES. RAINFALL AMOUNTS NOT VERY HIGH WITH STORMS MOVING AT
40+ MPH BUT STORMS OF LATE HAVE BEEN REDEVELOPING/MOVINGr OVER THE
SAME AREAS. WILL NOT ISSUE FFW AT THIS TIME AS FF GUIDANCE IS
FAIRLY HIGH AND STORMS SHOULD CONTINUE MOVING QUICKLY...BUT WILL
WATCH CLOSELY. /26

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 8:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 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.
Local storm report, May 26, 9:33 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
930 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996

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

0810 PM    3N CENTRAILIA             OK   POSSIBLE TORNADO
05/26/96   CRAIG                          BARN DESTROYED
                                          POSSIBLY 1 INJURY.
Local storm report, May 26, 9:48 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
950 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996

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

0750 PM    4 NE TALALA               OK   POSSIBLE TORNADO
05/26/96   ROGERS                         HOUSE DESTROYED.

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, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek30 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, 10:41 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

Nearby

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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.