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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Tulsa, OK

November 25, 1988Polk County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 25, 1988, 7:34 PM CST for Polk County, Arkansas. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 25, 1988, 7:34 PM CST (01:34 UTC)
Expired: Nov 25, 1988, 8:15 PM CST
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Polk County, AR

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 240 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: 959 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 981 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 348 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 429 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.2
Supercell composite: 10.9

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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.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 25, 6:45 PM CST, 49 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 25, 6:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	56 min
Nov 25, 6:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	32 min
Nov 25, 6:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	64 min
Nov 25, 6:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	62 min
Nov 25, 7:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Logan, Scott	64 min
Nov 25, 7:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin	64 min
Nov 25, 7:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	51 min
Nov 25, 8:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Logan	31 min
Nov 25, 9:45 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Polk	3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1988 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988

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.