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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 357, NWS Tulsa, OK

August 18, 1996Craig County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 1996, 3:43 PM CDT for Craig County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 47 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: Aug 18, 1996, 3:43 PM CDT (20:43 UTC)
Expired: Aug 18, 1996, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Craig County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Aug 17, 3:43 PM CDT, 24 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 3:43 PM CDT, 24 hours before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
340 PM CDT SAT AUG 17 1996

TWO AREAS OF RAINFALL ONGOING AT THIS TIME.  ONE AREA OF RAIN WITH
EMBEDDED THUNDER IS LOCATED OVER NW AR AND XTRM E OK AND MOVING TO
THE NORTHEAST...WHILE A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS DRIFTS EVER SO SLOWLY
EASTWARD ALONG AND JUST SOUTH OF THE KS BORDER.  WILL KEEP 50 TO 60
POPS TO HANDLE THIS ACTIVITY THIS EVENING ALONG THE KS AND MO
BORDERS.  WILL ALSO SPREAD CHANCE POPS THIS EVENING FURTHER SOUTH
AS SHEAR ZONE REMAINS JUST WEST OF THE AREA WITH PLENTY OF MOISTURE
TO WORK WITH.

BOTH THE NGM AND AVN FORECAST A RIDGE TO BUILD OUT OVER THE AREA
THROUGH THE PERIOD...AS THE VORT GETS PICKED IN INCREASING
SOUTHWEST FLOW.  WILL GO AHEAD AND LEAVE CHANCE POPS IN FORECAST
FOR TOMORROW WHILE SHEAR ZONE CONTINUES TO DRAG ITS FEET...BUT WILL
ONLY HAVE SLIGHT CHANCE IN NE ZONES FOR SUNDAY NIGHT AND HOPE THAT
THIS THING ACTUALLY MOVES ON OUTTA HERE.

WITH PLENTY OF LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE AROUND WILL CALL TOMORROW PARTLY
SUNNY/MOSTLY CLOUDY AND UNDERCUT MOS TEMPS CAT OR SO.  LOOKS LIKE
WE MAY SEE SOME DECENT SUNSHINE ON MONDAY WITH PARTLY CLOUDY
SKIES...AND TEMPS SHOULD RISE WELL.  WILL ONLY UNDERCUT MOS BY A
DEGREE OR TWO FOR MONDAY.  MOS LOWS LOOK REASONABLE AND FORECAST
LOWS WILL BE CLOSE.

...19...

...PRELIM NUMBERS...
TUL 70/86 73/90 43-2          FSM 70/83 66/90 4412
MLC 70/85 72/89 32-2          FYV 66/8L2 69/89 5422
BVO 67/88 72/92 53-2          BYV 66/80 64/88 5422
IDB 69/90 68/92 2212

.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
Aug 18, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata	55 min
Aug 18, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig	40 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.