Tornado Warning 46, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

Jun 19, 1996, 12:17 AM CDT (05:17 UTC)

Expired

Jun 19, 1996, 12:45 AM CDT

In force

28 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties

County Rogers County, OK

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:21 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 190516
TORTUL
OKC131-190545-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1217 AM CDT WED JUN 19 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...SOUTHWESTERN ROGERS COUNTY
 
AT 1216 AM...RADAR SHOWED SEVERAL POSSIBLE WEAK TORNADOES ACROSS
NORTHERN TULSA COUNTY NEAR OWASSO. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40
MILES AN HOUR. CATOOSA IS 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 STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jun 18, 9:16 PM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute earlier.

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
915 PM CDT TUE JUN 18 1996

LINE OF STORMS OVER NE OK HAS WEAKENED CONSIDERABLY AS IT MOVES SE INTO
WEAKER FLOW AT ALL LEVELS.  WILL STILL NEED TO UP POPS FOR NE ZONE TO
ACCOUNT FOR ACTIVITY MOVING INTO NW AR.  N OK CONVECTION APPEARS TO BE
BOWING TO THE SOUTH SIMILAR TO THE NW TX STORMS.  WITH LLJ DEVELOPING
WELL TO THE WEST DOES NOT APPEAR THAT ANY OF THIS ACTIVITY WILL MAKE
IT INTO E OK TONIGHT.  AM SLIGHTLY WORRIED ABOUT A STORM FORMING ALONG
THE INTERSECTION OF TWO OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES NEAR PNC AND MOVING SOUTHEAST
ALONG THAT BOUNDARY TO NEAR TUL...SO WILL UP POPS FOR MOST OF NE OK AS
WELL.

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

In the hours before

PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
931 PM CDT TUE JUN 18 1996

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

835 PM     HOLLOW  Z                  OK   WIND DAMAGE.
06/18/96   CRAIG                          TREE LIMBS DOWN.

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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.