Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 461, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 1999, 10:38 PM CDT for Nowata County, Rogers County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 1999, 10:38 PM CDT (03:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 1999, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Nowata County, OK, Rogers County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:42 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 1045 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3330 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
393 WUUS54 KTSA 270341 RRA SVRTUL OKC105-131-270430- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1038 PM CDT THU AUG 26 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN NOWATA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA NORTHERN ROGERS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 1130 PM CDT * AT 1038 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF WATOVA...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...TALALA... OOLOGAH...FOYIL AND WATOVA HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3675 9574 3672 9583 3629 9576 3637 9547
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 Aug 26, 9:40 PM CDT, 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 9:40 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 940 PM CDT THU AUG 26 1999 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH SET TO EXPIRE AT 10 PM. STILL ONGOING CONVECTION ACROSS THE AREA...MAINLY WEST OF HIGHWAY 75 AT THIS TIME AND ALSO FROM ADAIR COUNTY INTO NORTHWEST ARKANSAS ZONES. GENERAL WEAKENING TREND OVER THE PAST HOUR OR SO WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING...BUT ISOLATED STORMS STILL MANAGING TO PULSE TO AROUND SEVERE LIMITS IN THE ACTIVITY TO THE WEST OF HIGHWAY 75. EXPECT THIS WILL BE THE CASE FOR A FEW MORE HOURS OR SO. SATL AND PROFILER NETWORK SHOWING SHORTWAVE DROPPING SOUTHWARD ACROSS EASTERN KANSAS THROUGH THE EVENING. THIS FEATURE WILL DROP ON SOUTH ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE NIGHT WITH ENOUGH DYNAMICS TO KEEP CHANCE POPS GOING THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT. WILL ALSO MAKE SOME TEMP/WIND ADJUSTMENTS FOR THE OVERNIGHT HOURS BASED ON CURRENT TRENDS. NO CHANGES TO THE LATER PERIODS. UPDATED ZONES WILL BE ISSUED AT 10 PM WHEN WATCH EXPIRES. .TUL... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 26, 7:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
756 PM CDT THU AUG 26 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0430 PM 8 W CLAREMORE OK WIND DAMAGE
08/26/99 ROGERS POSSIBLE TORNADO MOBILE
HOME DAMAGED AND WIND
DAMAGE TO ROOF OF BARN
0538 PM LOCUST GROVE OK 1 INCH HAIL
08/26/99 MAYES
0603 PM LEACH OK 65 MPH TSTM GUST
08/26/99 DELAWARE
0644 PM ZENA OK .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/99 DELAWARE
0703 PM FAIRFAX OK .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/99 OSAGE
0703 PM FAIRFAX OK WIND DAMAGE
08/26/99 OSAGE TREE BLOWN DOWNLocal storm report, Aug 26, 7:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
756 PM CDT THU AUG 26 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0430 PM 8 W CLAREMORE OK WIND DAMAGE
08/26/99 ROGERS POSSIBLE TORNADO MOBILE
HOME DAMAGED AND WIND
DAMAGE TO ROOF OF BARN
0538 PM LOCUST GROVE OK 1 INCH HAIL
08/26/99 MAYES
0603 PM LEACH OK 65 MPH TSTM GUST
08/26/99 DELAWARE
0644 PM ZENA OK .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/99 DELAWARE
0703 PM FAIRFAX OK .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/99 OSAGE
0703 PM FAIRFAX OK WIND DAMAGE
08/26/99 OSAGE TREE BLOWN DOWNLocal storm report, Aug 26, 8:11 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
811 PM CDT THU AUG 26 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0740 PM CHARLESTON AR WIND DAMAGE
08/26/99 FRANKLIN TREES REPORTED DOWNLocal storm report, Aug 26, 8:11 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
811 PM CDT THU AUG 26 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0740 PM CHARLESTON AR WIND DAMAGE
08/26/99 FRANKLIN TREES REPORTED DOWNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 43 min |
| Aug 26, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 45 min |
| Aug 26, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 43 min |
| Aug 26, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 46 min |
| Aug 26, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 45 min |
| Aug 26, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 37 min |
| Aug 26, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 50 min |
| Aug 27, 12:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.