Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 1996

Tornado Warning 42, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 6, 1996Latimer County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 1996, 8:32 PM CDT for Latimer County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 43 min. 2 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: Jun 6, 1996, 8:32 PM CDT (01:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 1996, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Latimer County, OK

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 6, 8:35 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilburton, OK
Jun 6, 8:45 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Red Oak, 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 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 199 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 73 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -328 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 533 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 308 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 070133
TORTUL
OKC077-070215-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
832 PM CDT THU JUN 6 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...LATIMER COUNTY
 
AT 832 PM...RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR WILBURTON.
MOVEMENT IS EAST AT 30 MPH. RED OAK AND PANOLA ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM.
 
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.
 
KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jun 6, 3:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 3:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
345 PM CDT THU JUN 6 1996

OUTFLOW BNDRY HAS BEEN FOCUS FOR TRW DVLPMT THIS AFTN OVR NW AR.
OTR TRW HAV CONTD ALONG SLOW-MOVING LINE OVR XTRM SRN KS THIS AFTN.
EXCESSIVE RAINFALL IS A PSBLTY GIVEN LOW FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE
VALUES AOB 2 INCHES/HOUR AND THE DVLPMT OF SLOW MOVING LINES OF
CONVECTION. WL ISSUE FFA FOR ALL ZNS EXCEPT FROM TUL TO THE
WEST...WHERE FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE VALUES ARE CLOSER TO 3
INCHES/HOUR.

WATER VAPOR LOOP CONTS TO SHOW IMPRESSIVE S/W DIVING SOUTH OVR HI
CNTRL PLAINS. UPR LVL POOL OF COLD AIR WL MOV OVR WARM LO-LVL
THETA-E POOLING ALONG FRONT TO CAUSE FURTHER DESTABILIZATION OF
ATMOS THIS EVNG. WEAK CAP OVR SE OK SHUD BREAK. WND PROFILE OVR SE
OK/W CNTRL AR CUD SUPPORT ISOLD SUPERCELLS...ALTHO THEY SHUD NOT BE
LONG-LIVED. WND PROFILE MAY NOT BE AS SUPPORTIVE FOR SUPERCELLS IN
NE OK.

UPR LOW SHUD HANG UP OVR MID-MS VLY BY FRI NGT. COLD POOL ALOFT...
CYCLONIC FLOW...AND WRAPAROUND OF LO-LVL MSTR SHUD SUPPORT STRATOCU
DVLPMT WITH PSBL RW...PARTICULARLY DURG DAYTIME HEATING. DRY SLOT
MAY WORK INTO SRN ZNS...SO WL LET LATER SHIFTS DECIDE ON NECESSITY
OF POPS THERE FOR FRI NT/SAT.
22

PRELIM NUMBERS...SUBJECT TO LAST MINUTE CHANGES
TUL 061/079 058/075 7212
FSM 063/079 058/074 8521
MLC 063/078 057/075 7521
BVO 058/078 056/075 8211
FYV 060/074 054/069 7422
IDB 067/079 060/078 6721
BYV 061/074 055/071 7423

.TUL...
OK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT ZNS 56>58/61>63/67>76.
AR...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT ZNS 1/2/10/11/19/29.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 6, 3:07 PM CDT, 5 hours 25 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
305 PM CDT THU JUN 06 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0301 PM    8 S GREEN FOREST   V       AR   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/06/96   CARROLL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 7:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	25 min
Jun 6, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Pittsburg	41 min
Jun 6, 7:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	38 min
Jun 6, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah	42 min
Jun 6, 7:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	49 min
Jun 6, 8:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer	43 min
Jun 6, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	53 min
Jun 6, 9:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	LeFlore	51 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Oklahoma, 1996 Every tornado warning in 1996 Tornadoes 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.