Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 1996, 9:27 PM CST for Muskogee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 48 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, 9:27 PM CST (03:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1996, 10:15 PM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Muskogee County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:31 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 662 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1736 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 9:18 PM CST, 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 9:18 PM CST, 9 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
915 PM CST WED APR 3 1996
TRW HAVE INCREASED IN COVERAGE ACRS ERN OK/NW ARK THIS EVE. COLD
FRONT CONTS ITS SWD PUSH WITH GUD PRES RISES IN ITS WAKE. EXPCT FRONT
TO BE ACRS SE CORNER OF OK BY 12Z THURS. SOME SCTD RW/TRW HAVE
OCCURRED BEHIND THE FRONT AHEAD OF THE CNTRL OK SHORTWV...BUT THIS
ACTIVITY LESS INTENSE THAN THE STORMS ALONG THE FRONT.
WL MAKE SOME MODIFICATIONS TO 1ST PD OF ZONES...MAINLY TO INCRS POPS
S OF CURRENT FRONTAL POSITION. NO CHGS TO LATER PDS OF FCST.
/9
.TUL...
OK...NONE
AR...NONEIn the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 3, 7:59 PM CST, 1 hour 28 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, 8:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 67 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, 9:58 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
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.