Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

Mar 14, 1996, 11:54 PM CST (05:54 UTC)

Expired

Mar 15, 1996, 12:45 AM CST

In force

51 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties

County Mayes County, OK

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:05 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 
WUUS1 KTUL 150554 RRA
SVRTUL
OKC097-150645-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1154 PM CST THU MAR 14 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...EASTERN MAYES COUNTY
 
AT 1154 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CENTERED
JUST WEST OF PENSACOLA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. PENSACOLA AND
SPAVINAW ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.  THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF
PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS.
 
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, 2 hours 51 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.