Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

May 2, 1997, 2:07 AM CDT (07:07 UTC)

Expired

May 2, 1997, 3:00 AM CDT

In force

53 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties

County Creek County, OK

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:07 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 020707 RRA
SVRTUL
OKC037-020800-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
207 AM CDT FRI MAY 2 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...CREEK COUNTY
 
AT 206 AM...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM
SHAMROCK TO JUST EAST OF STROUD. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 50 MPH.
 
DEPEW AND BRISTOW ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF STORMS.
 
 
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED
IN THE WARNED AREA.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH
LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
DURING THE STORM MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM LIGHTNING DO NOT USE THE TELEPHONE
OR HAND HELD ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES...UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY.
MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR WATER ON ROADWAYS AND NEVER
DRIVE ONTO A FLOODED ROAD.
 
KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 1, 8:56 PM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes earlier.

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
855 PM CDT THU MAY 1 1997

CONVECTION GETTING ORGANIZED TO WEST OF THE AREA THIS EVE. ISOLD
SUPERCELLS THAT DVLPD IN WRN OK/TX PH THIS AFTN WERE GRADUALLY
WEAKENING AS THEY MOVD TOWARD CENTRAL OKLA.

INSTBY/MOIST AXIS EXTDD FROM CNTRL TX INTO NW OKLA THIS EVE.
NOTICEABLY DRIER AND MORE STABLE AIR WAS LOCATED ACRS ERN OKLA/NW ARK
EARLY THIS EVE WITH SFC DEWPTS STILL IN THE 30S AND 40S. AS SFC WARM
FRONT ACRS SW OKLA AND NRN TX MOVES N TONITE...RICH MSTR WILL
OVERSPREAD AREA. INCRG MSTR...STG WAA AND A FAVBL WIND PROFILE ALL
INDICATE THAT THE DEVELOPING MCS OVR SRN KS/NW OK WILL SPREAD ESE
INTO ERN OKLA AFT 06Z AND INTO NW ARK AFT 08Z. ALTHO INSTBY WILL
STILL BE MARGINAL WHEN THE MCS ARRIVES...EXCELLENT LO LVL WIND SHEAR
WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE POTENTIAL FOR SVR STORMS TONITE.

WL ISSUE AN UPDATE BY 0230Z TO FINE-TUNE THE 1ST PD OF ZONE PKG.
LIKELY OR CATEGORICAL POPS WILL BE KEPT IN MOST AREAS...WITH A
MENTION OF SVR MAINLY IN WRN PART OF FA.

NO CHGS TO LATER PDS OF FCST.
                                              /9

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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.