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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 5, 1988Benton County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 5, 1988, 4:17 PM CDT for Benton County, Arkansas. It was in force for 58 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: Apr 5, 1988, 4:17 PM CDT (21:17 UTC)
Expired: Apr 5, 1988, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Benton County, AR

The radar

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

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 5, 4:20 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Benton, AR

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. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

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, Apr 5, 3:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 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
Apr 5, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee, Okmulgee	63 min
Apr 5, 3:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner	65 min
Apr 5, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh	64 min
Apr 5, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware	69 min
Apr 5, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	62 min
Apr 5, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	61 min
Apr 5, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Muskogee	58 min
Apr 5, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	51 min
Apr 5, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	55 min
Apr 5, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	60 min
Apr 5, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford	55 min
Apr 5, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	56 min
Apr 5, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	56 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.