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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 29, 2016Creek County, Rogers County, Tulsa County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 2016, 5:34 PM CDT for Creek County, Rogers County, Tulsa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 29, 2016, 5:34 PM CDT (22:34 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 2016, 5:59 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Creek County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 169 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 123 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -903 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 632 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 239 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 348 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 9.0

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The text

As transmitted.

541 
WUUS54 KTSA 292234
SVRTSA
OKC037-131-143-292315-
/O.NEW.KTSA.SV.W.0095.160429T2234Z-160429T2315Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
534 PM CDT FRI APR 29 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN ROGERS COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA...
  EAST CENTRAL CREEK COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA...
  TULSA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA...

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 534 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES NORTHWEST
  OF MOUNDS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE 
           TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE...
  TULSA...                          BROKEN ARROW...
  SAND SPRINGS...                   CLAREMORE...
  OWASSO...                         BIXBY...
  SAPULPA...                        JENKS...
  GLENPOOL...                       CATOOSA...
  COLLINSVILLE...                   VERDIGRIS...
  KIEFER...                         MOUNDS...
  KELLYVILLE...                     TURLEY...
  LIBERTY...                        

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 44 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 208 AND 248.
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR NORTHEASTERN
OKLAHOMA.

LAT...LON 3628 9557 3616 9569 3616 9576 3609 9576
      3586 9600 3586 9619 3584 9619 3588 9626
      3616 9605 3617 9600 3622 9600 3643 9584
      3643 9583
TIME...MOT...LOC 2234Z 215DEG 38KT 3590 9612 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

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2 follow-up statements

168 
WWUS54 KTSA 292250
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
550 PM CDT FRI APR 29 2016

OKC037-131-143-292315-
/O.CON.KTSA.SV.W.0095.000000T0000Z-160429T2315Z/
ROGERS OK-CREEK OK-TULSA OK-
550 PM CDT FRI APR 29 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ROGERS...EAST CENTRAL CREEK AND EASTERN TULSA
COUNTIES...

AT 550 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF
GLENPOOL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO 
         ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE...
TULSA...                          BROKEN ARROW...
SAND SPRINGS...                   CLAREMORE...
OWASSO...                         BIXBY...
SAPULPA...                        JENKS...
GLENPOOL...                       CATOOSA...
COLLINSVILLE...                   VERDIGRIS...
KIEFER...                         TURLEY...

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 44 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 208 AND 248.
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 3628 9557 3616 9569 3616 9576 3609 9576
      3595 9590 3594 9610 3600 9617 3616 9605
      3617 9600 3622 9600 3643 9584 3643 9583
TIME...MOT...LOC 2250Z 212DEG 28KT 3600 9604 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

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928 
WWUS54 KTSA 292259
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
559 PM CDT FRI APR 29 2016

OKC037-131-143-292309-
/O.CAN.KTSA.SV.W.0095.000000T0000Z-160429T2315Z/
ROGERS OK-CREEK OK-TULSA OK-
559 PM CDT FRI APR 29 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ROGERS...EAST
CENTRAL CREEK AND EASTERN TULSA COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.  HOWEVER HEAVY RAIN IS
STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 3628 9557 3616 9569 3616 9576 3609 9576
      3595 9590 3594 9610 3600 9617 3616 9605
      3617 9600 3622 9600 3643 9584 3643 9583
TIME...MOT...LOC 2257Z 215DEG 38KT 3608 9597 

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 29, 3:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw	31 min
Apr 29, 3:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	45 min
Apr 29, 4:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh	34 min
Apr 29, 4:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha	47 min
Apr 29, 6:22 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	3 hr
Apr 29, 8:46 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	TSA	Pushmataha	37 hr
Apr 29, 2:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	51 min
Apr 29, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	33 min
Apr 29, 3:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pawnee	23 min
Apr 29, 3:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	24 min
Apr 29, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	44 min
Apr 29, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha	23 min
Apr 29, 3:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	33 min
Apr 29, 4:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	33 min
Apr 29, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Sequoyah	49 min
Apr 29, 4:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	32 min
Apr 29, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	29 min
Apr 29, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	22 min
Apr 29, 5:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okmulgee	24 min
Apr 29, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee	42 min
Apr 29, 5:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	25 min
Apr 29, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah	20 min
Apr 29, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Ottawa	27 min
Apr 29, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Rogers, Wagoner	41 min
Apr 29, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee	43 min
Apr 29, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner	19 min
Apr 29, 6:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig	15 min
Apr 29, 6:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Cherokee	25 min
Apr 29, 6:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	38 min
Apr 29, 6:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig	31 min
Apr 29, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.