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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 3, 1996Muskogee County, Oklahoma

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.

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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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1996-04-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 662 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1996-04-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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...NONE

In 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   OTTAWA

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 3, 7:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek52 min
Apr 3, 8:31 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSATulsa29 min
Apr 3, 8:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWagoner67 min
Apr 3, 8:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMayes50 min
Apr 3, 9:16 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee44 min
Apr 3, 9:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh47 min
Apr 3, 10:39 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, Latimer51 min
Apr 3, 11:08 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore52 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.