Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 14, 1996, 5:09 PM CST for Tulsa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 51 min. 13 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 14, 1996, 5:09 PM CST (23:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 1996, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tulsa County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 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 14, 5:16 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Glenpool, OK | |
| Mar 14, 5:22 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Tulsa, OK | |
| Mar 14, 5:22 PM CST | Hail 1.25 | Glenpool, OK | |
| Mar 14, 5:29 PM CST | Hail 1.5 | Glenpool, OK | |
| Mar 14, 5:31 PM CST | Hail 2.75 | Glenpool, OK | |
| Mar 14, 5:40 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Bixby, OK | |
| Mar 14, 5:41 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Bixby, OK | |
| Mar 14, 5:45 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Tulsa, OK | |
| Mar 14, 5:46 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Leonard, OK | |
| Mar 14, 5:51 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Broken Arrow, OK | |
| Mar 14, 5:55 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Sand Springs, OK | |
| Mar 14, 6:00 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Broken Arrow, OK | |
| Mar 14, 6:10 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Tulsa, 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 768 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -393 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1203 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 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 142309 TORTUL OKC143-150000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 509 PM CST THU MAR 14 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN TULSA COUNTY AT 509 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION NEAR KELLYVILLE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. JENKS AND GLENPOOL ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES AND VERY LARGE HAIL AND RADAR INDICATES A CONTINUED POTENTIAL FOR TORNADOES. 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 BUILDINGL OR GET IN A GROUND DEPRESSION. KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 1:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 46 min |
| Mar 14, 1:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 49 min |
| Mar 14, 2:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 52 min |
| Mar 14, 3:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 49 min |
| Mar 14, 3:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 45 min |
| Mar 14, 3:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 44 min |
| Mar 14, 4:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 42 min |
| Mar 14, 4:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek | 32 min |
| Mar 14, 4:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek | 51 min |
| Mar 14, 5:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek | 29 min |
| Mar 14, 5:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek | 31 min |
| Mar 14, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 45 min |
| Mar 14, 5:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 53 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.