Severe Thunderstorm Warning 263, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

Jun 3, 1996, 12:17 AM CDT (05:17 UTC)

Expired

Jun 3, 1996, 1:00 AM CDT

In force

43 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties

County Tulsa County, OK

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:15 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.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 030518
SVRTUL
OKC143-030600-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1217 AM CDT MON JUN 3 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  100 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...TULSA COUNTY
 
AT 1216 AM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER SAND SPRINGS.
SPOTTERS REPORTED DIME SIZED HAIL WITH THIS STORM. THE STORM WAS MOVING
EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE CITY OF TULSA IS IN THE PATH OF
THIS STORM.
 
 
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED
IN THE WARNED AREA.
 
DURING THE STORM MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM LIGHTNING DO NOT USE THE TELEPHONE
OR HAND HELD ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES...UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY.
MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR WATER ON ROADWAYS AND NEVER
DRIVE ONTO A FLOODED ROAD.
 
KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.
 
 
 
&

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 2, 8:49 PM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes earlier.

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
850 PM CDT SUN JUN 2 1996

SEVERE TSTM IN NEWTON COUNTY MISSOURI CONTINUES TO MAINTAIN ITS
STRENGTH AND IS TAKING AIM ON NW AR IN THE EUREKA SPRINGS AREA. WILL
NEED TO KEEP A MENTION OF SCATTERED TSTMS IN PARTS OF NW AR UNTIL
AROUND MIDNIGHT AS A RESULT. OTHERWISE SKIES SHOULD BE MOSTLY CLEAR
OVERNIGHT WITH PATCHY AREAS OF FOG FORMING IN THE SRN AREAS AS
INDICATED IN THE CURRENT FCST. WILL ADJUST WINDS TO LIGHT AND VARIABLE
FOR TONIGHT.

REMAINDER OF FCST LOOKS ON TRACK SO NO OTHER CHANGES PLANNED ATTM.

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

PLATE

In the hours before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1201 AM CDT MON JUN 03 1996

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

1145 PM    3 WNW JAY                 OK   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/02/96   DELAWARE

1158 PM    GRAVETTE                  AR   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/02/96   BENTON

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.