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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 332, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 22, 1996Muskogee County, Wagoner County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1996, 11:27 PM CDT for Muskogee County, Wagoner County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 63 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 22, 1996, 11:27 PM CDT (04:27 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 1996, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Muskogee County, OK, Wagoner County, OK

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 22, 11:30 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Okay, OK
Jul 22, 11:40 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 56	Boynton, 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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 187 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 656 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -107 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2566 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 22, 9:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 9:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
905 PM CDT MON JUL 22 1996

STAYING BUSY WITH SVR WX.  SFC ANALYSIS/MESONET SHOWS WELL DEFINED
OUTFLOW BNDRY FM SE KS TO SWO TO NR OKC.  PSBL TRIPLE PT LOW ALG
OUTFLOW BNDRY OVR PAWNEE CTY WITH ANOTHER NW/SE BNDRY FM LOW TO TUL
TO NR FSM.  ISOLD TO SCT STG/SVR TSTRMS DVLPG ALG NW/SE BNDRY WHERE
ATMS REMAINS UNSTABLE WITH LIS -4 TO -8 AND CAPES ARND 2000-3000
J/KG.  00Z UA ANALYSIS SUGGESTS A GENERAL SE/SSE MVMT.

WL LWR POPS OVR EXTREME NE OK/NW AR...BEHIND LLVL BNDRY AND TWEAK
REMAINING POPS TO FIT 88D.  NO CHGS TO LTR PDS.

HODGES

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

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 22, 10:57 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

ARZ010-019-029-230800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1055 PM CDT MON JUL 22 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 835 HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR
WASHINGTON AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS...

...THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH STILL REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3
AM FOR SEBASTIAN COUNTY...

SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED OUT OF MUCH OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS
EVENING...PROMPTING PORTIONS OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH TO BE
CANCELED.

ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATER TONIGHT
ACROSS NORTHWEST ARKANSAS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	51 min
Jul 22, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	56 min
Jul 22, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee	66 min
Jul 22, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers, Wagoner	41 min
Jul 22, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	54 min
Jul 22, 9:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Tulsa	26 min
Jul 22, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee	50 min
Jul 22, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	67 min
Jul 22, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Tulsa	49 min
Jul 22, 11:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh	63 min
Jul 22, 11:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Ottawa	43 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.