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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 534, NWS Tulsa, OK

November 22, 19995 counties in Oklahoma

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Nov 22, 8:35 PM CSTThunderstorm WindInola, OKOne 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 CSTThunderstorm Wind 66Broken Arrow, OKSeveral 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 CSTThunderstorm Wind 66Broken Arrow, OKLocation: near 193rd East Avenue and 91st Street South on the Tulsa/Wagoner County line
Nov 22, 8:50 PM CSTHail 0.88Pryor, OK
Nov 22, 9:05 PM CSTHail 1Pryor, OKAt 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 CSTThunderstorm Wind 52Pryor, OK
Nov 22, 9:10 PM CSTThunderstorm WindAdair, OKA power outage occurred in Adair when a power pole with a transformer was blown down.
Nov 22, 9:15 PM CSTThunderstorm WindHaskell, OKNumerous 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Nov 22, 5:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1999-11-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 300 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1999-11-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 164 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 22, 6:12 PM CSTTornado WarningTSATulsa33 min
Nov 22, 6:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSANowata, Washington46 min
Nov 22, 6:22 PM CSTTornado WarningTSARogers38 min
Nov 22, 6:24 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPushmataha51 min
Nov 22, 6:24 PM CSTTornado WarningTSAWashington36 min
Nov 22, 6:31 PM CSTTornado WarningTSANowata29 min
Nov 22, 6:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkfuskee, Okmulgee52 min
Nov 22, 6:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSATulsa52 min
Nov 22, 6:47 PM CSTTornado WarningTSAOkfuskee, Okmulgee28 min
Nov 22, 7:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSARogers43 min
Nov 22, 7:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSARogers, Tulsa, Wagoner46 min
Nov 22, 7:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPushmataha31 min
Nov 22, 7:20 PM CSTTornado WarningTSAOkmulgee25 min
Nov 22, 7:23 PM CSTTornado WarningTSAPushmataha37 min
Nov 22, 7:25 PM CSTTornado WarningTSARogers, Tulsa, Wagoner35 min
Nov 22, 7:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg35 min
Nov 22, 7:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig, Nowata43 min
Nov 22, 7:49 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee41 min
Nov 22, 7:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig, Mayes49 min
Nov 22, 7:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSANowata, Rogers, Tulsa47 min
Nov 22, 7:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Osage47 min
Nov 22, 8:09 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig, Ottawa51 min
Nov 22, 8:22 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSARogers23 min
Nov 22, 8:22 PM CSTTornado WarningTSARogers23 min
Nov 22, 8:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee43 min
Nov 22, 8:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig, Nowata43 min
Nov 22, 8:36 PM CSTTornado WarningTSAMayes24 min
Nov 22, 9:01 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg59 min
Nov 22, 9:04 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMayes, Rogers, Wagoner41 min
Nov 22, 9:04 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig, Delaware, Ottawa41 min
Nov 22, 9:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh61 min
Nov 22, 9:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig, Delaware, Ottawa46 min
Nov 22, 9:52 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg53 min
Nov 22, 9:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee48 min
Nov 22, 10:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee, Mayes, Wagoner45 min
Nov 22, 10:24 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee51 min
Nov 22, 10:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSADelaware, Ottawa30 min
Nov 22, 10:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, Latimer62 min
Nov 22, 11:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee, Sequoyah49 min
Nov 22, 11:37 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair53 min
Nov 22, 11:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSASequoyah49 min
Nov 23, 12:05 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWashington55 min
Nov 23, 12:18 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSABenton42 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.