Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 336, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1996, 2:20 AM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 40 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
- Jul 25, 1996, 2:20 AM CDT (07:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1996, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Osage County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 2:45 AM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Pawhuska, 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1998 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 24, 9:08 PM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 9:08 PM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 905 PM CDT WED JUL 24 1996 RADAR ECHOES BECOMING MUCH LESS CLUTTERED THAN WHEN WALKED THROUGH THE DOOR THIS AFTERNOON AND SAT PICS SHOW CLEARING LINE ADVANCING EAST. QUESTION IS WHETHER TO CARRY PRECIP IN FORECAST TONIGHT OR NOT. AT THIS TIME HAVE DECIDED TO CARRY ISOLATED IN EAST ENDING...BUT MAY CHANGE MIND DEPENDING ON LATEST RADAR TRENDS. WITH THE CLOUDS TODAY...TEMP-DEW POINT SPREAD NOT MUCH AND FIGURE WITH CLEARING TEMPS WILL FALL THROUGH DEW POINTS AND SOME FOG WILL BE POSSIBLE. LOOKING AHEAD...DRY DAY TOMORROW WITH A SHOT AT THUNDERSTORMS TOMORROW NIGHT AND FRIDAY LOOKS GOOD. BOTH THE 12Z ETA AND 12Z NGM SHOW SHORTWAVE AND UVV'S HEADED INTO THIS AREA TOMORROW NIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING. .TUL... OK...NONE. AR...NONE. ABBAS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 2:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 44 min |
| Jul 25, 2:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 44 min |
| Jul 25, 4:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Mayes | 42 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.