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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jun 18, 1996, 11:55 PM CDT for Tulsa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 35 min. 6 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 18, 1996, 11:55 PM CDT (04:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1996, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 35 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 04:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 12:10 AM CDT | Tornado F0 | Owasso, OK | |
| Jun 19, 12:20 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Tulsa, OK | |
| Jun 19, 12:25 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 | Tulsa, OK | |
| Jun 19, 12:30 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Glenpool, OK | |
| Jun 19, 12:36 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Bixby, OK | |
| Jun 19, 12:36 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Bixby, 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, 4.9 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
- 1313 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2174 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 190455 TORTUL OKC143-190530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1155 PM CDT TUE JUN 18 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...TULSA COUNTY AT 1155 PM...RADAR SHOWED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR SKIATOOK MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. SPERRY...TULSA...BROKEN ARROW AND JENKS 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. WATCH FOR SIGNS OF DEVELOPING STORMS. LARGE HAILSTONES AND UNUSUALLY LOW SWIRLING CLOUDS ARE MANY TIMES SEEN NEAR DEVELOPING TORNADOES. STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND TORNADOES OFTEN PRODUCE A LOUD ROARING SOUND THAT CAN BE HEARD IN THE VICINITY OF STORMS. FREQUENT AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING OCCURS WITH MOST SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. KEEP TUNED TO THIS STbATION 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 46 min |
| Jun 18, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 42 min |
| Jun 18, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 51 min |
| Jun 18, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 55 min |
| Jun 18, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 65 min |
| Jun 18, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Tulsa, Washington | 49 min |
| Jun 18, 11:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 34 min |
| Jun 19, 12:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Rogers | 28 min |
| Jun 19, 12:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner | 50 min |
| Jun 19, 1:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 36 min |
| Jun 19, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 1:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg, Sequoyah | 51 min |
| Jun 19, 2:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee | 47 min |
| Jun 19, 2:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 46 min |
| Jun 19, 2:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 52 min |
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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.