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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 346, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 29, 1996Rogers County, Tulsa County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1996, 10:58 PM CDT for Rogers County, Tulsa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 47 min. 7 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 29, 1996, 10:58 PM CDT (03:58 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 1996, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:58 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
Jul 29, 11:05 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Owasso, OK
Jul 29, 11:07 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 61	Tulsa, OK
Jul 29, 11:10 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Catoosa, OK
Jul 29, 11:10 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Catoosa, OK
Jul 29, 11:15 PM CDT	Hail 1	Catoosa, OK
Jul 29, 11:15 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Catoosa, OK
Jul 29, 11:45 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Inola, 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, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 191 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: 120 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -116 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1250 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 161 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 208 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 29, 8:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 8:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

NORTHWEST ARKANSAS/EASTERN OKLAHOMA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
855 PM CDT MON JUL 29 1996

00Z UA ANALYS INDCTS S/W ROTATING SEWD OUT OF FA THIS EVE.  TSTMS ACRS
SRN PTNS OF FA SHUD BGN TO DCRS SHRTLY AS UPR SUPPORT MOVS EWD.  HWVR
CDFNT RMNS NW OF FA AND CANNOT DISMISS PSBL REDVLPMNT LT TNGT...SPCLY
IF SLY LO LVL JET REESTBLSHS TO THE WEST OVRNGT.  SATL PICS INDCT
ANOTHR S/W MOVG SWD OUT OF UPR MS VLY.  IF MCS DVLPS FM TH"IS S/W...
IT WUD AFFECT MNLY NWRN AR LT TNGT.  WL MAKE ONLY MINOR CHGS ON THIS
UPDATE.   /11

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

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 29, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	44 min
Jul 29, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers	48 min
Jul 30, 12:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	49 min
Jul 30, 12:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Delaware	37 min
Jul 30, 1:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee	44 min
Jul 30, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Sequoyah	65 min
Jul 29, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	45 min
Jul 29, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	44 min
Jul 30, 1:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Washington	57 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1996 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.