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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 265, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 3, 1996Wagoner County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1996, 1:13 AM CDT for Wagoner County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 47 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
Jun 3, 1996, 1:13 AM CDT (06:13 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1996, 2:00 AM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Wagoner County, OK

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 3, 1:24 AM CDTHail 0.75Oneta, 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 186 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 1996-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 528 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 1996-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
528 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1784 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.9

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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 Jun 2, 8:49 PM CDT, 4 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 8:49 PM CDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before
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

Local storm report, Jun 3, 12:04 AM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes 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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 11:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSADelaware53 min
Jun 3, 12:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSATulsa43 min
Jun 3, 12:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSATulsa49 min
Jun 3, 1:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee42 min
Jun 3, 2:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWagoner30 min
Jun 3, 2:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee, Okmulgee44 min
Jun 3, 3:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, Muskogee41 min
Jun 3, 6:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkfuskee44 min
Jun 2, 9:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACarroll54 min
Jun 3, 3:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACrawford39 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.