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Tornado Warning 50, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Aug 1, 1996, 4:23 PM CDT for Haskell County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 37 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, 4:23 PM CDT (21:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 1996, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Haskell County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 012125 TORTUL OKC061-012200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 423 PM CDT THU AUG 1 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...WESTERN HASKELL COUNTY AT 423 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN INTENSIFYING THUNDERSTORM NEAR ENTERPRISE IN WESTERN HASKELL COUNTY. SOME ROTATION WAS NOTED IN A NARROW AREA JUST EAST OF ENTERPRISE. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR LANDSPOUT DEVELOPMENT THROUGH 5 PM. LANDSPOUTS...A WEAK AND SHORT LIVED TYPE OF TORNADO...CAN PRODUCE DAMAGE. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! 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.
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 Aug 1, 3:46 PM CDT, 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 3:46 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS/EASTERN OKLAHOMA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 345 PM CDT THU AUG 1 1996 SIGNIFICANT SHORTWAVE SEEN IN WATOR VAPOR LOOP DROPPING SOUTHEAST INTO THE FORECAST AREA. DARKENING BEHIND IT INDICATES STRONG SUBSIDENCE AND DO NOT EXPECT RAIN AGAIN TONIGHT AFTER THE SHORTWAVE PASSES THROUGH NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. SHOULD SOMETHING GET GOING OVER THE WESTERN PLAINS WOULD THINK IT WOULD TAKE UNTIL TOMORROW MORNING TO GET HERE. WILL INCLUDE LOW POPS ALL DAY TOMORROW INTO TOMORROW NIGHT CONSIDERING THIS AND THAT THE ETA SHOWS ANOTHER SHORTWAVE DROPPING INTO THE FORECAST AREA. LOOKS LIKE AFTER TOMORROW NORTHWEST FLOW PATTERN WILL END AS UPPER RIDGE BUILDS IN FROM THE WEST. EXPECT WARMING TREND CONSIDERING THIS AND ALSO AN END TO THE PATTERN OF DYING MCS'S MOVING INTO THE AREA. THUS...IT SHOULD BE DRY SATURDAY OTHER THAN ISOLATED HEAT OF THE DAY STORMS AND THINK CHANCES ARE LOW ENOUGH NOW TO LEAVE THEM OUT. TUL 069/092 073/094 075 0220 FSM 070/092 072/095 073 2220 MLC 070/092 073/095 073 0220 BVO 067/092 072/096 073 0220 FYV 065/087 068/090 069 2220 IDB 069/093 071/094 072 2220 BYV 064/087 066/089 067 2220 .TUL... OK...NONE. AR...NONE. ABBAS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 4:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 27 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.