Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

Mar 14, 1996, 9:42 PM CST (03:42 UTC)

Expired

Mar 14, 1996, 10:30 PM CST

In force

48 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties

County Washington 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 150342 RRA
SVRTUL
OKC147-150430-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
942 PM CST THU MAR 14 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...WASHINGTON COUNTY
 
AT 942 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A RAPIDLY INTENSIFYING SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CENTERED 2 MILES SOUTH OF BARTLESVILLE...MOVING EAST
NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
 
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS 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 D,O 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 Mar 14, 9:03 PM CST, 39 minutes earlier.

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

QUITE AN ACTIVE NGT ACRS FA WITH PLENTY OF SVR WX.  SUPERCELL THAT
MOVD THRU TULSA COUNTY EARLY THIS EVNG HS FINALLY MOVD OFF TO EAST
OF FA...BUT STG/SVR TSTMS RMN ACTIVE OVR NRN AND NERN PART OF FA.
SFC LO LCTD VCNTY OF HUGHES...PITTSBURG...MCINTOSH COUNTIES WITH
CDFNT DRAPED ACRS THE AREA.  DRYLN ALSO EVIDENT ON MESONET DATA
AND IR SATL PICS FRM LO SWRD INTO TX.  LO WL CONT TO MOV ON TO
THE EAST WITH CDFNT TO CONT TO SAG SEWRD ACRS THE AREA OVRNGT.
WL MAKE 1ST PD CHGS BASED ON RADAR TRENDS AND XPCTD MVMNT OF
LO/CDFNT/DRYLN.  NO CHGS TO LATER PDS WITH LTL TIME TO LOOK AT
MUC~H NEW DATA.

...04...

.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.