Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 534, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 22, 1999, 8:32 PM CST for 5 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 43 min. 8 reports 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
- Nov 22, 1999, 8:32 PM CST (02:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 22, 1999, 9:15 PM CST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Mayes County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 22, 8:35 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Inola, OK | One barn was destroyed and another barn's roof was blown off near Inola. In addition, a horse trailer was blown over and damaged. Power lines were blown down in the city of Inola. |
| Nov 22, 8:44 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 66 | Broken Arrow, OK | Several large tree branches were blown out of trees near 81st Street South (Houston) and 161st East Avenue (Elm Place). The Broken Arrow Police Department measured a 60 mph wind gust which blew the roof off of a building in downtown Broken Arrow. A spotter a |
| Nov 22, 8:44 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 66 | Broken Arrow, OK | Location: near 193rd East Avenue and 91st Street South on the Tulsa/Wagoner County line |
| Nov 22, 8:50 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Pryor, OK | |
| Nov 22, 9:05 PM CST | Hail 1 | Pryor, OK | At 905 PM, there was a report of nickel-sized hail in Pryor. At 906 PM, there was a report of quarter-sized hail just north of Pryor. |
| Nov 22, 9:05 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Pryor, OK | |
| Nov 22, 9:10 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Adair, OK | A power outage occurred in Adair when a power pole with a transformer was blown down. |
| Nov 22, 9:15 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Haskell, OK | Numerous trees were blown down in Haskell. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 22, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 300 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1007 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
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 Nov 22, 8:30 PM CST, 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 22, 8:30 PM CST, 2 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 830 PM CST MON NOV 22 1999 WILL SOON UPDATE PRIMARILY TO ACCOUNT FOR THE EXPIRED WATCH OVER OSAGE AND PAWNEE COUNTIES. LOOKS LIKE THE WIND PROFILE IS CURRENTLY ABOUT AS FAVORABLE AS IT WILL GET FOR SEVERE WEATHER. PROFILERS SHOW MID-LEVEL WINDS HAVE BEGUN VEERING WITH THE IMPENDING PASSAGE OF THE SHORTWAVE...AND WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS A DRY PUNCH AT THE MID/UPPER LEVELS WORKING INTO ERN OK. THIS IS ALL CONTRIBUTING TO THE INCREASE IN BOW ECHOES ALONG THE MAIN LINE OF STORMS. AS THE STRONGEST SURFACE PRESSURE FALLS WORK INTO WEST CENTRAL MO...LOW LEVEL WINDS IN ERN OK/NW AR SHOULD START TO VEER AND LEAD TO LESS LOW-LEVEL INFLOW AND STORM RELATIVE HELICITY. THERE WILL STILL BE A GOOD DEAL OF SPEED SHEAR THROUGH THE NIGHT...SO THE MAIN THREAT WILL SHIFT FROM TORNADOES TO DAMAGING WINDS BEFORE MIDNIGHT. 00Z RUC SHOWS MODERATE SURFACE-BASED INSTABILITY CONTINUING THROUGH THE NIGHT...SO THERMODYNAMIC PROFILES WILL REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR CONVECTION. BETTER SYNOPTIC LIFT HAS LIFTED NORTHEAST OF THE AREA...SO SEVERE THREAT WILL DIMINISH BY LATE EVENING THOUGH NOT COMPLETELY FADE UNTIL THE ENTIRE SYSTEM HAS SHIFTED EAST OF THE AREA. WILL NEED TO WATCH BACK TO OUR WEST LATER TONIGHT AS THE MID-LEVEL COLD FRONT APPROACHES AREAS NW OF TUL. COULD BE ENOUGH INSTABILITY IN THE COLD AIR FOR A FEW DIME-QUARTER HAILERS ALONG AND NW OF I-44. WILL ISSUE ONE MORE AFD THIS EVNG ARND 10 PM AFTER A LOOK AT NEW MODEL DATA. FCSTID = 22 .TUL... AR...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 1100 PM CST MONDAY FOR ZONES ARZ001>002...ARZ010>011...ARZ019>020...ARZ029. OK...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 1100 PM CST MONDAY FOR ZONES OKZ049...OKZ053...OKZ055>058...OKZ060>076.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 22, 6:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 33 min |
| Nov 22, 6:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 46 min |
| Nov 22, 6:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Rogers | 38 min |
| Nov 22, 6:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 51 min |
| Nov 22, 6:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Washington | 36 min |
| Nov 22, 6:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Nowata | 29 min |
| Nov 22, 6:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 52 min |
| Nov 22, 6:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 52 min |
| Nov 22, 6:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 28 min |
| Nov 22, 7:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 43 min |
| Nov 22, 7:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 46 min |
| Nov 22, 7:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 31 min |
| Nov 22, 7:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 25 min |
| Nov 22, 7:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 37 min |
| Nov 22, 7:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 35 min |
| Nov 22, 7:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 35 min |
| Nov 22, 7:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata | 43 min |
| Nov 22, 7:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 41 min |
| Nov 22, 7:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Mayes | 49 min |
| Nov 22, 7:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers, Tulsa | 47 min |
| Nov 22, 7:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage | 47 min |
| Nov 22, 8:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Ottawa | 51 min |
| Nov 22, 8:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 23 min |
| Nov 22, 8:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Rogers | 23 min |
| Nov 22, 8:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 43 min |
| Nov 22, 8:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata | 43 min |
| Nov 22, 8:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Mayes | 24 min |
| Nov 22, 9:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 59 min |
| Nov 22, 9:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner | 41 min |
| Nov 22, 9:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Ottawa | 41 min |
| Nov 22, 9:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 61 min |
| Nov 22, 9:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Ottawa | 46 min |
| Nov 22, 9:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 53 min |
| Nov 22, 9:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 48 min |
| Nov 22, 10:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Mayes, Wagoner | 45 min |
| Nov 22, 10:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 51 min |
| Nov 22, 10:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware, Ottawa | 30 min |
| Nov 22, 10:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer | 62 min |
| Nov 22, 11:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Sequoyah | 49 min |
| Nov 22, 11:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 53 min |
| Nov 22, 11:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 49 min |
| Nov 23, 12:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 55 min |
| Nov 23, 12:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 42 min |
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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.