Severe Thunderstorm Warning 384, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

Oct 20, 1996, 10:30 PM CDT (03:30 UTC)

Expired

Oct 20, 1996, 10:45 PM CDT

In force

15 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties

County Pawnee County, OK

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 210332
SVRTUL
OKC117-210345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1030 PM CDT SUN OCT 20 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...EASTERN PAWNEE COUNTY
 
AT 1029 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH INTO THE
WESTPORT AND KEYSTONE LAKE AREA.
 
 
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKLES 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 NOT 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.

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 20, 8:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
850 PM CDT SUN OCT 20 1996

SO FAR ONLY A FEW TSRA HV DVLPD ACRS WRN OK. NRN STRM APRD TO HV A
CLASSIC SPLIT EARLIER W/WELL DEFINED LEFT AND RIGHT MOVERS. THIS
FALLS IN LINE W/WND PROFILERS AND 00Z OUN SNDG WHICH SHOW JUST A
LTL VEERING W/HEIGHT BUT OVERALL FAIRLY STRAIGHT LINE HODOGRAPHS.
RIGHT MVG PART OF THIS SPLIT IS CRNTLY A FEW CNTYS AWAY FM FA.

MEANWHILE A CPL OTHER RIGHT MVG STRMS ARE IN SW OK. 00Z SNDGS AND
12Z MDLS SHOW CAP STRGR FURTHER E AND S. SO ALTHO SW OK STRMS ARE
HEADED TWDS MOIST AXIS THEY SHLD BE FACING MORE CAPPING. WOULD XCPT
SRN STRMS TO WEAKEN AS THEY MV TWDS SE OK. HOWEVER 15Z MESOETA DOES
SHOW A SMALL PRECIP BULLSEYE MVG ACRS SE OK INTO SW AR BY 12Z AND
THUS FAR ITS SOLN SEEMS TO BE DOING A FAIR JOB HANDLING CRNT
SCENERIO. WL HV TO SEE WHAT WINS OUT. BUT PREV THINKING OF CHC POPS
IN SE OK LOOKS FINE.

HEALTHY CAP SHOWN AT SGF ON 00Z SNDG BUT GOOD LAPSE RATES ABV CAP.
AS S/W PROGRESSES EWD MID LVL TEMPS WL COOL. NOT SURE IF THIS WL BE
ENOUGH TO HV SFC BASED CNVCTN IN NE ZNS BUT BELIEVE ELEVATED TSRA
CAN MV/DVLP THERE LATER TNGT. SO WL LET CRNT POPS RIDE.

INIT WND SHFT/SFC TROF HAS MADE IT INTO WRN OSAGE CNTY ATTM WHILE
APRS THAT CDFNT STILL LAGS BEHIND IN CNTRL KS. TIMING OF THESE
FEATURES BY PREV FCSTR LOOKS REASONABLE SO WL NOT MAKE ANY CHGS TO
MIN TEMPS OR WNDS.

07

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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.