Severe Thunderstorm Warning 280, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

Jun 8, 1998, 11:13 PM CDT (04:13 UTC)

Expired

Jun 9, 1998, 12:00 AM CDT

In force

47 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties

County Muskogee County, OK

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:14 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 090413 RRA
SVRTUL
OKC101-090500-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1113 PM CDT MON JUN 8 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...

  MUSKOGEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 1200 AM CDT

* AT 1113 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF BOYNTON...MOVING EAST AT
  35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  BOYNTON
  MUSKOGEE

  HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH CAN BE
  EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY
FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTO`RMS. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS.

TORRENTIAL RAINS MAY CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. DON'T
DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 8, 9:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.

FPUS3 KTUL 090156
AFDTUL
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
900 PM CDT MON JUN 8 1998

JUST SENT ANOTHER QUICK UPDATE TO COVER NEW TORNADO WATCH. CONT TO
WATCH TORNADIC SUPERCELL MOVG ACRS PITTBURG...MCINTOSH AND HASKELL
COUNTIES...AS WELL AS OTHER TSTMS N OF OKC AND OVER SC KS. SOUTHERN
SUPERCELL IN AXIS OF BEST INSTABILITY WITH LAPS CAPES AOA 3000 J/KG.
STORMS SHUD CONT NEXT FEW HOURS. WL ISSUE AT LEAST ONE MORE UPDATED
ZFP/RDF PACKAGE BEFORE MIDNIGHT.

SMITH

.TUL...

OK...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 531 MOST OF SE OK.
AR...NONE.

In the hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
842 PM CDT MON JUN 08 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0805 PM    HANNA                     OK   .75 INCH HAIL
06/08/98   MCINTOSH

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
900 PM CDT MON JUN 08 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0856 PM    4 S INDIANOLA             OK   TORNADO
06/08/98   PITTSBURG                      REPORTED BY CIVIL DEFENSE
                                          SPOTTERS

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1000 PM CDT MON JUN 08 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0950 PM    RUSSELLVILLE              OK   TORNADO
06/08/98   PITTSBURG                      REPORTED BY PITTSBURG
                                          COUNTY EOC

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.