Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

May 15, 1998, 5:31 AM CDT (10:31 UTC)

Expired

May 15, 1998, 6:30 AM CDT

In force

59 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties

County Osage County, OK

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:32 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.

111 
WUUS54 KTSA 151032 RRA
SVRTUL
OKC113-151130-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
531 AM CDT FRI MAY 15 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...

  WESTERN OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 630 AM CDT

* AT 528 AM... DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
  FROM TONKAWA TO RED ROCK. DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 70 MPH
  WILL OCCUR WITH MANY OF THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTH NORTHEAST
  AT 45 MPH.

* THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...
  RURAL AREAS BETWEEN PONCA CITY AND BURBANK



IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SEEK SHELTER NOW. GO TO THE
LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. AVOID OUTSIDE WALLS AND
WINDOWS. MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR A MORE SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER IF ONE IS NEARBY.

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 15, 3:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.

FPUS3 KTUL 150851
AFDTUL

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
350 AM CDT FRI MAY 15 1998

VIGOROUS SHORWAVE TO MOVE TO OUR WEST AND NORTH TODAY.  SHORTWAVE HAS
HELPED TO TRIGGER A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ALONG DRY LINE/PACIFIC COLD
FRONT IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AND WESTERN OKLAHOMA THIS MORNING.
EXPECT STORMS TO CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST NORTHEAST AND EVENTUALLY
EFFECT THE FORECAST AREA.  HAVE GONE LIKELY POPS NORHEAST OKLAHOMA
AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AND GOOD CHANCE POPS FOR AREAS TO THE SOUTH.
MAIN CHANCE FOR RAIN TO BE THIS MORNING...BUT WILL NOT GET CUTE WITH
WORDING AS DRY LINE/PACIFIC COLD FRONT TO MAKE ITS WAY ACROSS THE
AREA LATER TODAY AND COULD TRIGGER ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS.  HAVE KEPT SLIGHT CHANCE POPS IN FOR THE EASTERN ZONES
THIS EVENING FOR THIS REASON AS WELL.

TEMPERATURE WISE HAVE BASICALLY FOLLOWED THE FWC NUMBERS WITH ONLY A
FEW SLIGHT VARIATIONS.  TONIGHT TO BE COOLER THAN THIS MORNING DUE TO
LOWER DEW POINTS AND LESS WIND...BUT HIGHS SHOULD STAY IN THE 80S AS
COOLING BEHIND FRONT IS NOT SIGNIFICANT.

LOOKING AHEAD IT APPEARS THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST PERIOD WILL BE
QUIET AND WARM AS AN UPPER RIDGE BUILDS OVER THE AREA AND REMAINS IN
PLACE.

FCSTID = 17
TUL   87  60  88  65 /  60  10   0   0
FSM   87  60  88  59 /  50  20   0   0
MLC   87  62  89  63 /  50  10   0   0
BVO   86  58  87  63 /  60  10   0   0
FYV   85  57  85  56 /  60  20   0   0
IDB   87  61  89  62 /  40  20   0   0
BYV   84  56  84  55 /  60  20   0   0
MIO   86  58  86  60 /  60  10   0   0
MKO   87  60  88  65 /  60  10   0   0
F10   87  61  88  64 /  60  10   0   0
HHW   87  62  89  63 /  40  20   0   0

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

ABBAS

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.