Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 463, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 1999, 11:55 PM CDT for Wagoner County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 1999, 11:55 PM CDT (04:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 1999, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:58 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 12:20 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Redbird, OK | Numerous trees were blown down. |
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.
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
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 Aug 26, 9:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 9:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 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, 3 hours 59 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, 3 hours 59 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, 3 hours 44 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, 3 hours 44 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, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers | 52 min |
| Aug 26, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 37 min |
| Aug 27, 12:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 48 min |
| Aug 26, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin | 43 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.