Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

Mar 14, 1996, 10:51 PM CST (04:51 UTC)

Expired

Mar 15, 1996, 12:00 AM CST

In force

69 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties

Counties Craig 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 
WUUS1 KTUL 150453 RRA
SVRTUL
OKC035-097-150600-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1051 PM CST THU MAR 14 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...SOUTHERN CRAIG COUNTY...NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MAYES COUNTY
 
AT 1051 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
CHELSEA IN NORTHEASTERN ROGERS COUNTY...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25
MPH.  BIG CABIN IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...WHILE WHITE OAK IS
NEAR THE STORMS PATH. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN ROGERS
COUNTY MAY MOVE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL MAYES COUNTY BY 1130 PM.
 
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS 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.

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 14, 9:03 PM CST, 1 hour 48 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.