Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 313, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1996, 5:51 PM CDT for Tulsa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 54 min. 2 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
- Jul 2, 1996, 5:51 PM CDT (22:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1996, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tulsa County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 5:52 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Tulsa, OK | |
| Jul 2, 5:58 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Tulsa, 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 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 413 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -232 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1977 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 022252 SVRTUL OKC143-022345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 551 PM CDT TUE JUL 2 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...TULSA COUNTY AT 551 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING NEAR 41ST AND YALE IN THE CITY OF TULSA. DIME SIZE HAIL WAVS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM AT 550 PM. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. &
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 Jul 2, 3:13 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 3:13 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 315 PM CDT TUE JUL 2 1996 NO ACTVTY HAS DVLPD SO FAR THIS AFTN SOUTH OF THE UPR LVL SHEAR AXIS. HWVR..WL STILL HOLD ONTO SLGT CHC TSTMS SOUTH OF A MLC-FSM LN THIS EVE AS LT AFTN OR ERY EVE TSTMS STILL A PSBLTY. AFTWDS MDLS SIMILAR IN DPCTG SHEAR AXIS MOVG SOUTH OF FA TNGT WITH UPR RDG BLDG BHND IT. WK SFC TROF PUSHING THRU FA TNGT WL TURN WNDS MORE ELY WED. ALTHO IT WL STILL BE HOT...ELY WND COMPONENT SHUD KNOCK MAX TEMPS WED A FEW DEGS BLO TDA. AFTWDS MDLS SIMILAR IN CONTG TO BLD UPR RDG INTO CNTL PLAINS AS UPR TROF DPNS OVR ERN U.S. DVLPG NWLY FLO IN THE UPR LVLS HAS ME A BIT CONCERNED ABT NGTTIME TSTMS IN NWRN AR OR EXTRM ERN OK THURS NGT AND PERHAPS THRU HOLIDAY WKND. HWVR...WL NOT INTRODC POPS ATTM DUE TO UNCERTAINTY. RTRN OF SLY WNDS AFT THURS SHUD ALLOW TEMPS TO AGAIN INCH UP TWDS THE CENTURY MARK OVR THE WEEKEND. /11 PRELIMS TUL 075/097 073/095 --11 FSM 074/096 072/094 2111 MLC 076/099 074/097 2111 BVO 073/098 071/096 --11 FYV 069/094 067/092 --11 IDB 070/096 069/095 2111 .TUL... OK...NONE. AR...NONE.
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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.