Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 136, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 1998, 8:33 PM CDT for Choctaw County, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 72 min. 3 reports 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
- Apr 26, 1998, 8:33 PM CDT (01:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 1998, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 72 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Choctaw County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 8:48 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Boswell, OK | Thunderstorm winds caused a tree to fall on a mobile home and a vehicle parked near the mobile home in Boswell. The Dodson Feed Store in Boswell had its roof torn away by the high winds. Countywide, the winds knocked down numerous trees and caused power outa |
| Apr 26, 9:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Ft Towson, OK | Several trees blown down |
| Apr 26, 9:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Nashoba, OK | A few large tree limbs blown down |
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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 26, 4:19 PM CDT, 4 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 4:19 PM CDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg | 50 min |
| Apr 26, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Pushmataha | 48 min |
| Apr 26, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Pittsburg | 44 min |
| Apr 26, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 30 min |
| Apr 27, 5:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 2 hr |
| Apr 27, 7:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 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.