Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1996, 3:09 PM CST for Mayes County, Wagoner County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 51 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 1996, 3:09 PM CST (21:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 1996, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Mayes County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 3:11 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Pryor, OK | |
| Mar 24, 3:11 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Pryor, OK | |
| Mar 24, 3:15 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Wagoner, 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1072 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 341 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 359 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KTUL 242111 RRA SVRTUL OKC101-097-145-242200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 309 PM CST SUN MAR 24 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA ...EASTERN MUSKOGEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...MAYES COUNTY...EASTERN WAGONER COUNTY AT 307 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM EAST OF TALALA TO INOLA TO PORTER MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. PRYOR...CHOUTEAU AND WAGONER 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. 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. KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER 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 Mar 24, 10:03 AM CST, 5 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 24, 10:03 AM CST, 5 hours 6 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1000 AM CST SUN MAR 24 1996 SFC LO OVR OVR N-CNTL KS ATTM WITH DRYLINE XTNDG DOWN ACRS WRN OK. STMS FIRING ALNG DRYLINE THIS MRNG AND ALSO BEGINNING TO SEE DVLPMNT A LTL AHD OF DRYLINE. CURRENT FCST LOOKS GOOD HANDLING STG/SVR STMS SWEEPING ACRS AREA THRU EARLY EVNG AS UPR SYSTM COMES OUT INTO THE PLNS AND DRYLINE PUSHES TO ERN PART OF FA BY EARLY EVNG. ONLY CHG TO MRNG PKG WL BE TO XTND WND ADVSY INTO XTRM NW AR TO CVR FYV AREA AS LLVL JET GRAD SHIFTS EWRD. ...04... .TUL... OK...WND ADVSY TDA ZNS 54>71/73>75. AR...WND ADVSY TDA ZNS 1/10.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 24, 11:52 AM CST, 3 hours 17 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-029-OKZ054>077-260200- EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1200 PM CST SUN MAR 24 1996 ...A TORNADO WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA UNTIL 6 PM... NUMEROUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT. A POWERFUL EARLY-SPRING STORM WILL CONTINUE MOVING OVER THE PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND BRING SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER CENTRAL OKLAHOMA ALONG A STRONG DRYLINE WILL INTENSIFY AND MOVE EASTWARD OVER THE BARTLESVILLE...TULSA AND MCALESTER AREAS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON... ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA DURING THE MID AND LATE AFTERNOON...AND ACROSS NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AND EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA FROM LATE AFTERNOON THROUGH MID EVENING. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 70 MPH WILL BE LIKELY FROM THE LINE. AHEAD OF THE LINE...CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED SUPERCELL STORMS. THE WIND PROFILE IS FAVORABLE FOR TORNADO DEVELOPMENT...AND CONDITIONS ALSO FAVOR HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE AND WINDS UP TO 70 MPH WITH ANY SUPERCELLS THAT FORM. THE SUPERCELL STORMS AND ASSOCIATED TORNADOES WILL BE MOST LIKELY ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 40...THOUGH AN ISOLATED SUPERCELL IS POSSIBLE SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL DIMINISH AFTER THE PASSAGE OF THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS AND THE DRYLINE. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS ACROSS EASTE2RN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS AND THE LATEST FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 12:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee, Pawnee | 52 min |
| Mar 24, 1:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Tulsa | 41 min |
| Mar 24, 1:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Tulsa | 52 min |
| Mar 24, 2:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Pittsburg | 46 min |
| Mar 24, 2:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 54 min |
| Mar 24, 2:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 54 min |
| Mar 24, 2:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 28 min |
| Mar 24, 2:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Pittsburg | 49 min |
| Mar 24, 3:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 51 min |
| Mar 24, 3:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 41 min |
| Mar 24, 3:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 32 min |
| Mar 24, 4:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa, Washington | 46 min |
| Mar 24, 4:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers | 50 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.