Tornado Warning 35, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

May 26, 1996, 7:44 PM CDT (00:44 UTC)

Expired

May 26, 1996, 8:15 PM CDT

In force

31 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties

Counties Nowata County, OK, Rogers County, OK

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:34 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 
TTAA00 KTUL 270044
TORTUL
OKC105-131-270115-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
744 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...SOUTHERN NOWATA COUNTY...NORTHERN ROGERS COUNTY
 
AT 744 PM...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR HIGHWAY 169 NORTH OF
TALALA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE.
OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.
STAY AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND
MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET IN A GROUND DEPRESSION.

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at May 26, 2:52 PM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes earlier.

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
245 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996

TSTMS DVLPG IN ERN TX PNHNDL ERY THIS AFTN.  XPCT ACTVTY TO BCM
MORE NMRS BY LT AFTN ALG DRYLN.  ISOLD TSTMS CUD DVLP AHD OF DRYLN
IN EOK/NWAR THIS EVE BUT XPCT MOST OF THE ACTVTY TO REACH FA LT
THIS EVE AND TNGT.  SVR WX PARAMETERS WL DISCUSD IN DY1 OTLK AND WL
NOT ELABORATE.  ETA/NGM PUSH DRYLN RPDLY EWD.  MAY SLO THE MVMNT
SLGTLY BUT XPCT LN OF TSTMS TO BE IN NWRN AR OR XTRM ERN OK BY 12Z
MON.  MDLS INDCT DRY SLOT ROTATING INTO FA BUT SOME WRAPARND MOISTR
INDCTD JUST NORTH OF FA MON.  WL INDCT TSTMS ENDG ERY MON BUT MAY
NEED TO WATCH FOR PSBL REDVLPMNT AS UPR LO WL BRING COLD AIR ALOFT.
WL GO WITH A DRY FCST AFTWDS WITH WRMR DAYTIME TEMPS FOR TUES.  /11

PRELIMS
TUL 067/086 065/089 7310
FSM 067/085 063/088 54-0
MLC 067/088 064/091 53-0
BVO 064/086 062/089 7210
FYV 065/082 062/084 6410
IDB 067/086 066/089 44-0

.TUL...
OK...NONE.
AR...NONE.

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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.