Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

Jul 3, 1997, 8:11 PM CDT (01:11 UTC)

Expired

Jul 3, 1997, 9:15 PM CDT

In force

64 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties

Counties Craig County, OK, Nowata County, OK

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 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 040111 RRA
SVRTUL
OKC035-105-040215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
811 PM CDT THU JUL 3 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...CRAIG COUNTY...NOWATA COUNTY
 
AT 808 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES EAST OF
LENAPAH...MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. CHILDERS AND CENTRALIA ARE IN
THE PATH OF THE STORM.
 
ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED 8 MILES EAST OF
BARTLESVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.  NOWATA IS IN THE PATH
OF THIS STORM.
 
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED
IN THE WARNED AREA.
 
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 Jul 3, 2:12 PM CDT, 5 hours 59 minutes earlier.

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
210 PM CDT THU JUL 3 1997

18Z SURFACE MAP SHOWS LOW PRESSURE OVER SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL
KANSAS WITH A BOUNDARY EXTENDING FROM EAST CENTRAL KANSAS INTO THE
OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE.  ETA AND NGM IN FAIR AGREEMENT THAT THAT THE
LOW WILL MOVE EAST AND PHASE WITH THE FRONT AS FRONT PUSHES
SOUTHEAST IN RESPONSE TO CENTRAL PLAINS SHORTWAVE.  HIGH PRESSURE
WILL BUILD INTO THE AREA FOR TOMORROW AND SATURDAY BRINGING DRY
WEATHER AND SEASONABLY COOL TEMPERATURES.  THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED
TO DEVELOP ALONG BOUNDARY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON
AND PUSH SOUTHEAST INTO NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
THIS EVENING AS THE FRONT PROGRESSES.  SOME SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE
AS WINDS FIELDS WILL BE RELATIVELY STRONG FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR AND
LARGE CAPE WILL REMAIN IN PLACE.  MAIN THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING
WINDS AND LARGE HAIL BUT PER SPC OUTLOOK WIND FIELD MAY SUPPORT
ISOLATED SUPERCELLS.  WILL GO LESSER CHANCES AND LEAVE OUT MENTION
FOR SEVERE FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS
DYNAMICS WILL BE WELL TO THE NORTH...THE FRONT WILL ARRIVE WELL
AFTER DARK AND CAP MAY BE STRONGER.  GOING FORECAST HANDLES THE
SITUATION WELL AND PROBABLY WILL NOT MAKE MANY CHANGES.  FWC
NUMBERS LOOK REASONABLE AND PROBABLY WILL ONLY TWEAK SLIGHTLY.

TUL 065/085 063/087 064 5000
FSM 070/086 063/087 064 3000
MLC 070/086 063/088 065 3000
BVO 063/084 061/086 062 5000
FYV 065/081 056/082 059 5000
IDB 073/088 065/088 066 2200
BYV 065/080 055/082 058 5000

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

ABBAS

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.