Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 397, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 6, 1996, 7:54 PM CST for Okfuskee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 36 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
- Nov 6, 1996, 7:54 PM CST (01:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 6, 1996, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Okfuskee County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:58 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 514 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 070157 SVRTUL OKC107-070230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 754 PM CST WED NOV 6 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA ...OKFUSKEE COUNTY AT 754 PM...RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BEARDEN. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MILES AN HOUR. BEARDEN... OKEMAH AND PHARAOH ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 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. KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEVATHER BULLETINS.
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 Nov 6, 3:35 PM CST, 4 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 6, 3:35 PM CST, 4 hours 19 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 330 PM CST WED NOV 6 1996 BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM JLN TO TUL TO OUN HAS ONLY SLOWLY BEEN PROPAGATING TO THE SOUTHEAST TODAY. THE MOST WIDESPREAD ACTIVITY HAS BEEN MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST OVER MO WHERE BETTER LOW-LEVEL WAA IS LOCATED. AS LARGE S/W TROUGH APPROACHES THIS EVENING AREA OF SHRA/TSRA SHOULD EXPAND/INTENSIFY OVER A LARGE PORTION OF E OK AND NW AR. THE COLD FRONT HAS SLOWLY PROGRESSED SEWD AHEAD OF MOST OF THE RAINFALL AND GENERALLY EXTENDS FROM JLN TO OKMULGEE AT THIS TIME. TEMPS ARE GENERALLY IN THE 50S BEHIND THE FRONT...WITH MID 70S AHEAD OF IT. FRONT SHOULD BE WELL SE OF THE AREA BY 12Z...BUT 850 FRONT WILL LAG BEHIND IT AND PROVIDE FOCUS FOR HEAVY RAINS OVERNIGHT. EXPECT RAINS TO END FROM WEST TO EAST OVERNIGHT...WITH MCCURTAIN COUNTY THE LAST TO CLEAR BEFORE NOON TOMORROW. SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT SHOULD ALLOW FOR SHRA/TSRA TO CONTINUE TO TRAIN ALONG/BEHIND FRONT THROUGH THE NIGHT PRODUCING FLOODING RAINS OVER MOST OF THE FORECAST AREA. WILL ISSUE FFA FOR MOST OF THE AREA FOR TONIGHT. WILL USE LOCATION OF CURRENT SHRA/TSRA ACTIVITY AS NORTHERN BOUNDARY FOR WATCH. S/W TROUGH SHOULD MOVE THROUGH WITH RAPID CLEARING TOMORROW. REST OF FORECAST LOOKS TO BE MOSTLY CLEAR/SUNNY THROUGH EXTENDED PERIOD. NORTH WINDS WILL SPREAD COOLER AIR ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA BY MORNING. DAYTIME HIGHS IN ERN ZONES WILL BE CLOSE TO 12Z TEMPS. FWC AND FAN GUIDANCE SHOW WARMING TREND THROUGH FRIDAY WITH THE FWC BEING A CAT OR SO WARMER. WILL USE A COMPROMISE OF THE TWO FOR HIGHS NEXT TWO DAYS. NORTH WINDS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE SOME THURSDAY NIGHT KEEPING TEMPS FROM BOTTOMING OUT...BUT CALM WINDS FRIDAY NIGHT WILL ALLOW FOR GOOD RADIATIONAL COOLING. ...19... ...PRELIM NUMBERS... TUL 43/58 39/64 8000 FSM 52/58 37/64 +200 MLC 46/59 38/65 +000 FYV 47/54 35/61 +200 BVO 39/58 35/65 5000 BYV 50/52 38/59 +200 IDB 56/61 37/65 +200 .TUL... OK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT...ZN56>58/60>77. AR...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT...ZN01/02/10/11/19/29.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 6, 6:23 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Delaware | 4 hr |
| Nov 6, 6:23 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Mayes | 4 hr |
| Nov 6, 8:56 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 6 hr |
| Nov 6, 8:56 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer | 6 hr |
| Nov 6, 9:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore | 47 min |
| Nov 7, 2:56 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 3 hr |
| Nov 7, 2:56 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 3 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.