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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 123, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 22, 1989Crawford County, Sebastian County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1989, 4:14 AM CDT for Crawford County, Sebastian County, Arkansas. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 22, 1989, 4:14 AM CDT (09:14 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 1989, 5:15 AM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

Counties Crawford County, AR, Sebastian 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

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 172 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 1989-05-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1989-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 91 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1856 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
346 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 1:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage, Pawnee66 min
May 22, 1:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage48 min
May 22, 2:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Tulsa64 min
May 22, 2:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWashington64 min
May 22, 2:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSANowata, Rogers69 min
May 22, 2:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner64 min
May 22, 2:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig, Mayes64 min
May 22, 2:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkfuskee64 min
May 22, 3:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSASequoyah68 min
May 22, 3:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, McIntosh, Muskogee65 min
May 22, 3:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg65 min
May 22, 4:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore65 min
May 22, 7:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg45 min
May 22, 8:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore57 min
May 22, 3:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSABenton, Washington63 min
May 22, 4:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMadison65 min
May 22, 4:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAFranklin64 min
May 22, 5:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAJohnson, Logan, Scott69 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.