Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 255, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1996, 2:01 AM CDT for Craig County, Nowata County, Rogers County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 59 min. 7 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
- Jun 1, 1996, 2:01 AM CDT (07:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1996, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Craig County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Rogers County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2:05 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Nowata, OK | |
| Jun 1, 2:25 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Centralia, OK | |
| Jun 1, 2:30 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Vinita, OK | |
| Jun 1, 2:30 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Vinita, OK | |
| Jun 1, 2:30 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah, OK | |
| Jun 1, 2:35 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Welch, OK | |
| Jun 1, 2:35 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Welch, 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 553 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 010702 SVRTUL OKC035-105-131-010800- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 201 AM CDT SAT JUN 1 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...CRAIG COUNTY...SOUTHERN AND EASTERN NOWATA COUNTY ...NORTHERN ROGERS COUNTY AT 200 AM...RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 7 MILES EAST OF SOUTH COFFEYVILLE TO JUST WEST OF NOWATA TO 7 MILES WEST OF TALALA MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. NOWATA...CETRALIA...TALALA AND OOLAGAH ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS. DAMAGING WINDS WITH GUSTS UP TO 70 MPH WILL OCCUR WITH THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING OR HOME. STAY AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME YOU SnHOULD MOVE TO A MORE SUBSTANTIAL STRUCTURE IF ONE IS NEARBY. 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 May 31, 9:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 9:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 900 PM CDT FRI MAY 31 1996 MOST PRECIP HAS DIMINISHED/MVD OUT OF FA THIS EVE. ONLY XCPN IS IN NW AR ZNS NR THE MO BRDR. HV SEEN SOME REDVLPMNT IN THAT AREA IN THE PAST HR OR SO. OTRW MOST TRW ACTVTY ATTM IS WELL N AND W OF FA. FNTL BNDRY APRS TO STILL BE POSITIONED NW-SE ACRS OK W/LOWER CLDS DIMINISHING IN MOST AREAS. NOT MUCH TO ADD TO PREV FCST. STILL NOT CERTAIN WHETHER TRW COMPLEX WL MV ACRS ZNS TNGT SO WL CONT W/CHC POPS. BUT IF IT OCCURS IT SHLD BE LATE SO WL INSERT THAT WORDING INTO ZFP XCPT FOR THOSE FEW ZNS WHERE TRW ARE CRNTLY PERSISTING. MAY BE A LTL MORE OPTIMISTIC IN SE ZNS AND CHG SKY COND` TO PTLY CLDY AND LOWER POPS JUST A BIT FM CRNT FCST. OTRW MILD LOW TEMPS AND SE WNDS IN ZFP SEEMS FINE. 07 .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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 12:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 41 min |
| Jun 1, 1:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 63 min |
| Jun 1, 1:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 65 min |
| Jun 1, 2:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee, Tulsa | 45 min |
| Jun 1, 2:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes, Rogers | 45 min |
| Jun 1, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware, Ottawa | 48 min |
| Jun 1, 3:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee | 53 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.