Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 334, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1996, 11:47 PM CDT for Craig County, Ottawa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 1996, 11:47 PM CDT (04:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1996, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Craig County, OK, Ottawa County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:02 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 2098 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1258 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 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 230449 SVRTUL OKC035-115-230530- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1147 PM CDT MON JUL 22 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...CRAIG COUNTY...OTTAWA COUNTY AT 1145 PM...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM QUAWPAW TO MIAMI TO WELCH TO CENTRALIA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. DURING THE STORM MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM LIGHTNING DO N OT USE THE TELEPHONE OR HAND HELD ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES...UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR WATER ON ROADWAYS AND NEVER DRIVE ONTO A FLOODED ROAD. KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.
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 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 9:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 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, 50 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 | Muskogee, Wagoner | 63 min |
| Jul 22, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 63 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.