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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Tulsa, OK

August 1, 1996Pittsburg County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Aug 1, 1996, 4:18 PM CDT for Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 1, 1996, 4:18 PM CDT (21:18 UTC)
Expired
Aug 1, 1996, 4:45 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Pittsburg County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 154 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1996-08-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 239 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1996-08-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 94 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
239 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-188 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
967 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 012119
TORTUL
OKC121-012145-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
418 PM CDT THU AUG 1 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...WESTERN AND CENTRAL PITTSBURG COUNTY
 
AT 415 PM A BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN WAS REPORTED 2 MILES WEST OF
TANNEHILL. SOME TREE DAMAGE WAS REPORTED. THE SMALL TORNADO HAS
LIFTED. HOWEVER...OTHER BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWNS MAY OCCUR THROUGH
445 PM.
 
THIS TYPE OF TORNADO IS LIKELY A LANDSPOUT...A WEAKER VERSION...BUT
ONE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGE.  THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PRODUCED
THIS TORNADO IS APPROACHING THE MCALESTER AREA.
 
 
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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 1, 4:23 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAHaskell37 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.