Severe Thunderstorm Warning 280, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

Jun 6, 1996, 12:23 AM CDT (05:23 UTC)

Expired

Jun 6, 1996, 1:30 AM CDT

In force

67 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties

Counties Creek County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Tulsa County, OK

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:24 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 060525
SVRTUL
OKC037-113-117-143-060630-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1223 AM CDT THU JUN 6 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  130 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...CREEK COUNTY...EASTERN OSAGE COUNTY...EASTERN PAWNEE COUNTY
   ...TULSA COUNTY
 
AT 1222 AM...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM FROM WYNONA
TO HALLETT TO CUSHING. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50
MILES AN HOUR. WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN OSAGE
AND PAWNEE COUNTIES WITH THESE STORMS.
 
DAMAGING WINDS WITH GUSTS UP TO 65 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 SHOULD MOVE TO A MORE SUBSTANTIAL STRUCTURE IF ONE IS NEARBY.

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 5, 9:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes earlier.

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
935 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996

BIG PROBLEM FOR FORECAST IS CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT...
TOMORROW AND TOMORROW NIGHT.

ATMOSPHERE IS QUITE UNSTABLE OVER EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST
ARKANSAS THIS EVENING.  QUESTION IS WILL THE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX
OVER NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHWEST KANSAS LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO
FEED ON IT.  MY FIRST GUESS IS YES AS WATER VAPOR AND 12Z NGM HINT
AT A SHORTWAVE MOVING SOUTHEAST FROM NORTHWEST COLORADO OVERNIGHT
AND A STRENGTHENING LOW LEVEL JET SHOULD ADD FORECING DUE TO WARM
ADVECTION.  THUS...HAVE UPPED POPS OVER EASTERN OKLAHOMA TONIGHT
AND ADDED TIMING OF EXPECTED CHANCE.  TOOK OUT MENTION OF LATE
AFTERNOON FOR EASTERN ZONES TOMORROW SINCE COMPLEX MAY STILL BE
ALIVE EARLY TOMORROW MORNING.

LOOKED AT THUNDERSTORM CHANCES LATE TOMORROW AFTERNOON AND EVENING
AND THINK THEY ARE BETTER THAN FWC NUMBERS INDICATE AND NUDGED POPS
UP SOME FOR LATE AFTERNOON TUL AREA AND FOR TOMORROW EVENING TO THE
EAST AND SOUTH.  MODELS SHOW CAP WEAKENING WITH THE APPROACH OF THE
FRONT AND CONVERGENCE FROM FRONT SHOULD BE AIDED BY UPPER SUPPORT.
ADDED MENTION OF SEVERE BSINCE ATMOSPHERE LIKELY TO REMAIN JUICY AND
2ND DAY OUTLOOK FROM SPC HAS MOST OF THE AREA IN A MODERATE RISK.

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

ABBAS

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.