Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Tulsa, OK
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 10:27 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Miami, 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.
- 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
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.
| 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, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 48 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, 10:41 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 |
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.