Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 376, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 26, 1996, 12:14 AM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 46 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
- Sep 26, 1996, 12:14 AM CDT (05:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 1996, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Osage County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 12:50 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Okesa, 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, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 971 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 570 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 373 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 6.7
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 Sep 25, 9:14 PM CDT, 3 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 25, 9:14 PM CDT, 3 hours before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORHTWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 910 PM CDT WED SEP 25 1996 WET FCST LOOKS GOOD. A WK WRMFNT FROM SWRN AR ACRS OSAGE CO AND INTO KS IS APRNTLY FOCUS FOR DVLPMT OF OVRRNG PCPN FOR MUCH OF NERN OK AND NWRN AR. THIS ACTVTY BEGAN ARND 8 PM AND CONTS TO DVLP AND DRIFT ENEWD. XPC THAT TO CONT AND WILL KEEP HIGH POPS THAT AREA. OTHER TSTMS DVLPD OVER SWRN KS AND NWRN OK ARE XPCD TO DRIFT ESEWD DURG THE NIGHT. H8 FLOW WILL CONT TO FEED MDT MSTR INTO THE STORMS...ALTO OUN RAOB WAS NOT ESP UNSTABLE. SVR WRNGS OUT ATTM FOR SRN KS AND N/CNTRL OK...AND WILL KEEP WORDING FOR PSBL SVR THRU THE NIGHT. NO OTHER CHANGES. .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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 55 min |
| Sep 26, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 41 min |
| Sep 26, 12:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 55 min |
| Sep 26, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 60 min |
| Sep 26, 1:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 41 min |
| Sep 26, 1:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 39 min |
| Sep 26, 2:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 50 min |
| Sep 26, 4:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage, Rogers, Tulsa | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 4:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Delaware, Mayes | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 6:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 6:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Wagoner | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 6:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 8:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 8:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 9:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Okmulgee | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 9:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 9:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 10:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg, Sequoyah | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 11:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 12:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 10:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Carroll, Madison | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 12:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 29 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.