Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

Mar 14, 1996, 7:49 PM CST (01:49 UTC)

Expired

Mar 14, 1996, 8:30 PM CST

In force

41 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties

Counties Delaware County, OK, Mayes County, 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.

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 150150 RRA
SVRTUL
OKC041-097-150230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
749 PM CST THU MAR 14 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...DELAWARE COUNTY...EASTERN MAYES COUNTY
 
AT 750 PM RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST
OF SPAVINAW...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH TOWARD SOUTHERN DELAWARE
COUNTY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL DELAWARE AND NORTHERN MAYES
COUNTIES MAY INTENSIFY.
 
 
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED
IN THE WARNED AREA.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH
LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
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NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 14, 4:22 PM CST, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier.

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
420 PM CST THU MAR 14 1996

MODELS NOT IN GREAT AGREEMENT.  THUS...HAVE GONE WITH A COMPROMISE
AND A LOOK AT WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW.  SAT PICS SHOW DRY SLOT HAS
MOVED ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA WITH STRONG/SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON
ITS NOSE OVER EXTREME NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA.  OTHER THUNDERSTORMS HAVE
FORMED TO THE WEST IN THE AREA OF A MOISTURE CONVERGENCE MAXIMUM
SEEN IN MESONET.  PER SPC'S TORNADO WATCH MAY SEE ADDITIONAL
THUNDERSTORMS FORM THIS EVENING.

MEANWHILE...A COLD FRONT WILL SAG SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT
SHIFTING WINDS TO THE NORTH AND ENDING THE THUNDERSTORM CHANCES FOR
THE TIME BEING.  THIS ENDING MAY NOT BE LONG AS THE COLD FRONT
WASHES OUT TOMORROW OR BECOMES A STATIONARY BOUNDARY ACROSS THE
SOUTHEAST U.S. AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS AS THE AVN SUGGESTS.  ANYWAY...
A SERIES OF SHORTWAVES ARE KICKED OUT OF THE DESERT SOUTHWEST IN A
STREAMWISE FASHION.  ONE SUCH SHORTWAVE MAY BRING THUNDERSTORMS TO
THE AREA LATE TOMORROW NIGHT AS IS SUGGESTED BY STRONG VV'S
CROSSING THE AREA FROM SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA TO ARKANSAS BY THE AVN.
THE AVN HAS ANOTHER SUCH SHORTWAVE MOVE INTO THE AREA LATER ON
SATURDAY.  THUS...HAVE INCLUDED CHANCE POPS BOTH PERIODS.  HAVE
KEPT POPS RELATIVELY LOW AS THE DEPTH AND EXTENT OF INSTABILITY AND
MOISTURE MAY BE A PROBLEM.

TUL 048/067 050/064 042 5033
FSM 053/073 047/064 045 3033
MLC 053/073 050/065 045x 3033
BVO 045/063 049/060 040 5033
FYV 051/067 045/060 040 5033
IDB 058/075 057/070 048 2033
BYV 051/067 043/060 038 5033

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

ABBAS

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.