Tornado Warning 48, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

Jul 22, 1996, 9:49 PM CDT (02:49 UTC)

Expired

Jul 22, 1996, 10:15 PM CDT

In force

26 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties

County Tulsa County, 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.

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 230251
TORTUL
OKC037-143-230315-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
949 PM CDT MON JUL 22 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...NORTHEASTERN CREEK COUNTY...SOUTHWESTERN TULSA COUNTY
 
AT 949 PM...SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND JUST WEST OF
SAPULPA AND ANOTHER NEAR GLENPOOL.  THESE STORMS ARE MOVING SLOWLY
SOUTHWARD.
 
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.
 
 
 
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NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jul 22, 9:07 PM CDT, 42 minutes earlier.

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
905 PM CDT MON JUL 22 1996

STAYING BUSY WITH SVR WX.  SFC ANALYSIS/MESONET SHOWS WELL DEFINED
OUTFLOW BNDRY FM SE KS TO SWO TO NR OKC.  PSBL TRIPLE PT LOW ALG
OUTFLOW BNDRY OVR PAWNEE CTY WITH ANOTHER NW/SE BNDRY FM LOW TO TUL
TO NR FSM.  ISOLD TO SCT STG/SVR TSTRMS DVLPG ALG NW/SE BNDRY WHERE
ATMS REMAINS UNSTABLE WITH LIS -4 TO -8 AND CAPES ARND 2000-3000
J/KG.  00Z UA ANALYSIS SUGGESTS A GENERAL SE/SSE MVMT.

WL LWR POPS OVR EXTREME NE OK/NW AR...BEHIND LLVL BNDRY AND TWEAK
REMAINING POPS TO FIT 88D.  NO CHGS TO LTR PDS.

HODGES

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

In the hours before

OKZ054>076-ARZ019-029-230000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
400 PM CDT MON JUL 22 1996

...THE HEAT ADVISORY FOR MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND A PORTION OF
WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS HAS EXPIRED...

THE HEAT ADVISORY WHICH INCLUDED THE TULSA...BARTLESVILLE...MCALESTER
AND FORT SMITH AREAS HAS EXPIRED.  ALTHOUGH AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURES
REACHED THE MID 90S TO LOWER 100S THIS AFTERNOON...A SLIGHT COOLING
TREND IS EXPECTED.  HIGHS OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS WILL REMAIN IN THE
LOW TO MID 90S...WHICH IS NEAR NORMAL FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR.  ALTHOUGH
IT WILL STILL BE HOT...THE TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY WILL NOT COMBINE
TO PRODUCE EXTREME HEAT INDICES LIKE DURING THIS PAST WEEKEND.

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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.