Severe Thunderstorm Warning 325, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

Oct 8, 1997, 10:08 PM CDT (03:08 UTC)

Expired

Oct 8, 1997, 11:00 PM CDT

In force

52 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 03:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

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WUUS1 KTUL 090309 RRA
SVRTUL
OKC037-090400-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1008 PM CDT WED OCT 8 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...CREEK COUNTY
 
AT 1008 PM...RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF
DEPEW. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE STORM IS EXPECTED
TO TRACK NORTHEAST ALONG I-44 INTO THE BRISTOW AND KELLYVILLE AREAS.
 
 
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 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.
 
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.
 
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 Oct 8, 9:42 PM CDT, 26 minutes earlier.

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
940 PM CDT WED OCT 8 1997

SO FAR JUST A GLANCING BLOW OF STRONG TSTMS ACRS THE NWRN FCST AREA.
STRONGER STORMS JUST NOW WORKING THEIR WAY INTO NWRN COUNTIES.  JUST
ENOUGH UPR DYNAMICS STILL IN PLACE TO SUGGEST THAT MORE WL COME IN FM
THE WSW LATER THIS EVENING.  A LOOK AT THE 00Z RAOB DATA SHOWS
DIFFLUENT UPR FLOW ACRS REGION THIS EVENING WITH MDT LLVL INFLOW OF
MSTR.  MAIN UPR ENERGY WL LIFT OUT TO THE NE LATE TONIGHT AS BEST
WINDS ALFT NOW IN ERN QUAD OF UPR LONGWAVE TROF.  WITH THIS IN
MIND... EXPECT SCT STRONG TSTMS ACRS WRN FCST AREA THRU MIDNIGHT...
WITH ACTIVITY WINDING DOWN STRENGTHWISE BY EARLY MORNING AS MAIN
ENERGY LIFTS OUT.  AS FAR AS SPECIFIC POPS GO...WONT ADJUST ANY POPS
DOWNWARD ATTM.  WITH UPR SWLY FLOW ALFT JUST ABT ANYTHING COULD GEN
UP IN LLVL MSTR TO THE SW. SFC BNDRY WL MAKE SLOW PROGRESS (IF AT
ALL) INTO WRN FCST AREA BY DAYBREAK BEFORE STALLING OUT.

PICTURE STILL A LITTLE MUDDLED AS TO WHAT WL HAPPEN BEYOND PD 1 AND
WOULD LIKE TO LOOK AT LATER MODEL DATA BEFORE SUGESTING ANY CHANGES
THERE (MAINLY IN REGARDS TO POSN OF LLVL BNDRY).  WL HOLD OFF ON
UPDATING ZONES ATTM...ALTHO WE ARE LOOKING INTO POSSIBLY UPDATING
POPS ACRS NWRN ZONE GROUPINGS TO EXTEND MENTION OF POPS OVERNIGHT.

FCSTID = 14

.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.