Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 52, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Nov 16, 1996, 4:56 PM CST for Nowata County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report 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
- Nov 16, 1996, 4:56 PM CST (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 16, 1996, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nowata County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 5:10 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Lenapah, 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 549 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 349 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 360 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 162259 RRA TORTUL OKC105-162330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 456 PM CST SAT NOV 16 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...NOWATA COUNTY AT 456 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 2 MILES NORTH OF NOWATA. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE TOWN OF CHILDERS 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 4:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 47 min |
| Nov 16, 4:36 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Nowata, Osage, Washington | 3 hr |
| Nov 16, 5:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 49 min |
| Nov 16, 5:57 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Rogers, Tulsa | 3 hr |
| Nov 16, 5:57 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek | 3 hr |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.