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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 1996, 8:38 PM CST for Wagoner County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 67 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
- Apr 3, 1996, 8:38 PM CST (02:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1996, 9:45 PM CST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:38 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1911 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 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 040239 SVRTUL OKC145-040345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 838 PM CST WED APR 3 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...WAGONER COUNTY AT 837 PM RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE EASTERN AND SOUTHERN PARTS OF THE CITY OF TULSA MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. DIME SIZE HAIL HAS OCCURRED IN TULSA WITH THESE STORMS. THE TOWN OF ONETA IS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS. 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 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 Apr 3, 3:42 PM CST, 4 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 3:42 PM CST, 4 hours 56 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 340 PM CST WED APR 3 1996 SAT PICS AND KINX 88-D SHOW EVIDENCE OF A SHORTWAVE MOVING ACROSS THE CENTRAL PARTS OF KANSAS AND OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON. THE RESULTS HAVE BEEN ACCAS AND SOME RW-/VIRGA. THIS FEATURE SHOULD CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST ACROSS THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WILL NOT NEED TO ADD POPS TO FORECAST SINCE THEY ARE ALREADY INCLUDED IN ANTICIPATION OF A COLD FRONT THAT WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST OUT OF KANSAS AND ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT. AT 20Z THE COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED FROM TOP-ICT-GAG-AMA. BY 06Z THE COLD FRONT SHOULD HAVE ALREADY MOVED THROUGH A JLN-TUL-OKC LINE AND BY 12Z IT IT IS EXPECTED TO HAVE CLEARED THE FORECAST AREA. AS WITNESSED BY THE ACCAS AND RW-/VIRGA WITH THE SHORTWAVE THIS AFTERNOON...LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IS MEAGER AND SHALLOW. RETURN MOISTURE CAN BE SEEN IN CU FIELD ACROSS EASTERN TEXAS. FEEL MOISTURE RETURN WILL GIVE WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA THE BEST CHANCE OF SIGNIFICANT RAIN. ALSO...TIME SECTIONS FROM FYV...FSM AND MLC SHOWED DEEP AND FAIRLY STRONG LIFT AROUND 06Z OR ABOUT THE TIME OF OR SHORTLY BEFORE FRONTAL PASSAGE. THUS...WILL SKEW POPS USING THAT ALSO. HIGH PRESSURE WILL NOSE ITS WAY INTO THE AREA FOLLOWING THE COLD FRONT AND CONTINUE TO PUSH THROUGH TEXAS AND INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO BY 12Z FRIDAY. THIS HIGH PRESSURE WILL SET UP AN OVERRUNNING RAIN EVENT AS A SHORTWAVE MOVES OUT OF THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ROCKIES FRIDAY. WITH THE SOUTHWARD PROGRESS OF THE HIGH PRESSURE...LIKE THE AVN SOLUTION OF 90 PERCENT MEAN RH SOUTH OF THE FORECAST AREA OVER NORTH TEXAS. THUS...WILL NOT MENTION RAIN ACROSS THE NORTH PART OF THE FORECAST AREA AND ONLY A SLIGHT CHANCE OVER MUCH OF THE SOUTH. TEMPERATURE WISE GENERALLY FOLLOWED FWC'S GIVE OR TAKE A FEW DEGREES. TUL 045/060 037/055 035 3000 FSM 050/065 040/055 038 6002 MLC 050/065 040/055 038 6002 BVzO 040/057 035/050 033 3000 FYV 048/060 037/055 035 4000 IDB 055/068 045/058 040 6304 BYV 048/060 037/055 033 4000 .TUL... OK...NONE AR...NONE ABBAS
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 3, 7:59 PM CST, 39 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
758 PM CST WED APR 3 1996
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0740 PM MIAMI p OK .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/96 OTTAWAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 7:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 52 min |
| Apr 3, 8:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 8:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 9:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 44 min |
| Apr 3, 9:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 9:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 47 min |
| Apr 3, 10:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer | 51 min |
| Apr 3, 11:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 52 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
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.