Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 308, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1996, 2:13 AM CDT for Adair County, Cherokee 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 19, 1996, 2:13 AM CDT (07:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1996, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 2:15 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Cookson, 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 1313 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2174 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 18, 9:16 PM CDT, 4 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 9:16 PM CDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 915 PM CDT TUE JUN 18 1996 LINE OF STORMS OVER NE OK HAS WEAKENED CONSIDERABLY AS IT MOVES SE INTO WEAKER FLOW AT ALL LEVELS. WILL STILL NEED TO UP POPS FOR NE ZONE TO ACCOUNT FOR ACTIVITY MOVING INTO NW AR. N OK CONVECTION APPEARS TO BE BOWING TO THE SOUTH SIMILAR TO THE NW TX STORMS. WITH LLJ DEVELOPING WELL TO THE WEST DOES NOT APPEAR THAT ANY OF THIS ACTIVITY WILL MAKE IT INTO E OK TONIGHT. AM SLIGHTLY WORRIED ABOUT A STORM FORMING ALONG THE INTERSECTION OF TWO OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES NEAR PNC AND MOVING SOUTHEAST ALONG THAT BOUNDARY TO NEAR TUL...SO WILL UP POPS FOR MOST OF NE OK AS WELL. .TUL... OK...NONE. AR...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 18, 9:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
931 PM CDT TUE JUN 18 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
835 PM HOLLOW Z OK WIND DAMAGE.
06/18/96 CRAIG TREE LIMBS DOWN.Local storm report, Jun 19, 2:01 AM CDT, 12 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 46 min |
| Jun 18, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 42 min |
| Jun 18, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 51 min |
| Jun 18, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 55 min |
| Jun 18, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 65 min |
| Jun 18, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Tulsa, Washington | 49 min |
| Jun 18, 11:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 34 min |
| Jun 18, 11:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 35 min |
| Jun 19, 12:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Rogers | 28 min |
| Jun 19, 12:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner | 50 min |
| Jun 19, 1:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 36 min |
| Jun 19, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 1:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg, Sequoyah | 51 min |
| Jun 19, 2:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 46 min |
| Jun 19, 2:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 52 min |
| Jun 18, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison | 63 min |
| Jun 19, 3:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Washington | 46 min |
| Jun 19, 3:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 46 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.