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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Tulsa, OK

February 6, 1999Osage County, Pawnee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 6, 1999, 11:42 PM CST for Osage County, Pawnee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 63 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 6, 1999, 11:42 PM CST (05:42 UTC)
Expired
Feb 7, 1999, 12:45 AM CST
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 159 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1999-02-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1999-02-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -29 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
100 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Feb 6, 8:55 PM CST, 2 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 6, 8:55 PM CST, 2 hours 47 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
855 PM CST SAT FEB 6 1999

WATCH SET TO EXPIRE AT 9 PM FOR REMAINING COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST OK.
THREAT OF SEVERE HAS DIMINISHED AND MAIN AREA OF PRECIP WILL BE
EXITING THE AREA OVER THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO.  WILL UPDATE ZONES AT
9 PM TO REFLECT THIS...BUT WILL CONTINUE TO HOLD ONTO SOME LOW POPS
AREAWIDE FOR A LITTLE WHILE LONGER.

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 6, 7:55 PM CST, 3 hours 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
755 PM CST SAT FEB 06 1999

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

0710 PM    WILBURTON                 OK   WIND DAMAGE
02/06/99   LATIMER                        MANY POWER LINES REPORTED
                                          DOWN...SEVERAL TREES
                                          UPROOTED

0710 PM    5 S WILBURTON             OK   WIND DAMAGE
02/06/99   LATIMER                        SEVERAL HOUSES DAMAGED BY
                                          WIND
Local storm report, Feb 6, 8:05 PM CST, 3 hours 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
805 PM CST SAT FEB 06 1999

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

0804 PM    4 E HACKETT               AR   60 MPH TSTM GUST
02/06/99   SEBASTIAN
Local storm report, Feb 6, 8:08 PM CST, 3 hours 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
808 PM CST SAT FEB 06 1999

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

0805 PM    EXCELSIOR                 AR   65 MPH TSTM GUST
02/06/99   SEBASTIAN

0807 PM    2 E HUNTINGTON            AR   70 MPH TSTM GUST
02/06/99   SEBASTIAN
Local storm report, Feb 6, 8:08 PM CST, 3 hours 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
808 PM CST SAT FEB 06 1999

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

0805 PM    EXCELSIOR                 AR   65 MPH TSTM GUST
02/06/99   SEBASTIAN

0807 PM    2 E HUNTINGTON            AR   70 MPH TSTM GUST
02/06/99   SEBASTIAN
Special weather statement, Feb 6, 8:10 PM CST, 3 hours 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
810 PM CST SAT FEB 6 1999

OKZ072-074-075-070309-

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 42 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE
FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN

EASTERN OKLAHOMA.
         HASKELL             LATIMER             SEQUOYAH

OKZ049-053-076-070300-

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 42 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM
CST FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN

EASTERN OKLAHOMA.
         CHOCTAW             LE FLORE            PUSHMATAHA
Local storm report, Feb 6, 8:12 PM CST, 3 hours 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
812 PM CST SAT FEB 06 1999

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

0810 PM    GREENWOOD                 AR   70 MPH TSTM GUST
02/06/99   SEBASTIAN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 6, 6:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg62 min
Feb 6, 7:18 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALatimer, LeFlore42 min
Feb 6, 7:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAChoctaw, Pushmataha65 min
Feb 6, 7:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore65 min
Feb 6, 10:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage, Pawnee49 min
Feb 6, 7:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACrawford, Sebastian58 min
Feb 6, 8:07 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAFranklin53 min
Feb 6, 8:18 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningTSABenton87 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.