Severe Thunderstorm Warning 342, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

Jun 18, 1998, 11:26 PM CDT (04:26 UTC)

Expired

Jun 19, 1998, 12:15 AM CDT

In force

49 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties

County McIntosh County, OK

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:26 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 190426 RRA
SVRTUL
OKC091-190515-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1126 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...

  MCINTOSH COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT

* AT 1124 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM NEAR VIVIAN BETWEEN RAIFORD AND EUFAULA...MOVING EAST
  AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  VIVIAN
  EUFAULA
  LAKE EUFAULA

  HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE
  EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.

BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH.

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 18, 8:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes earlier.

FPUS3 KTUL 190057
AFDTUL

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
800 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1998

WILL UPDATE ZONES SHORTLY TO ADJUST 1ST PERIOD POPS FOR CURRENT
TRENDS. COLD FRONT/DRYLINE NOW STARTING TO RETREAT SLIGHTLY BACK TO
THE WEST SO WILL ALSO ADJUST WINDS AND MIN TEMPS TONIGHT FOR THESE
TRENDS. ALSO ADDED SOME CLOUDS WHERE POPS ARE MENTIONED FRIDAY NIGHT.
HAVE NOT LOOKED AT MUCH ELSE SO WILL SAVE ANY OTHER CHANGES UNTIL
LATER.

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

PLATE

In the hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
533 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1998

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

0955 PM    5 N CLAYTON               OK   1 INCH HAIL
06/18/98   PUSHMATAHA

1030 PM    1 W WHITESBORO            OK   WIND DAMAGE
06/18/98   LE FLORE                       TREE LIMB DOWN ACROSS ROAD
                                          AND TREES KNOCKED DOWN
                                          JUST WEST OF WHITESBORO.

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
543 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1998

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

0955 PM    STIGLER                   OK   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/18/98   HASKELL

0955 PM    STIGLER                   OK   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/18/98   HASKELL                        LARGE TREE LIMBS KNOCKED
                                          DOWN.

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.