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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 8, 1989LeFlore County, Oklahoma; Scott County, Sebastian County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1989, 11:45 PM CDT for LeFlore County, Oklahoma; Scott County, Sebastian County, Arkansas. It was in force for 60 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: May 8, 1989, 11:45 PM CDT (04:45 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 1989, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Scott County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, LeFlore County, OK

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
May 9, 12:01 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	Le Flore, OK

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 nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 218 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: 1380 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 643 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 222 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 212 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 8.6

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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, May 8, 8:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
848 PM CDT MON MAY 08 1989

TIME(CDT)   COUNTY        REPORT

2025 PM     ADAIR        NICKEL SIZE HAIL FELL AT WATTS.

Local storm report, May 8, 11:44 PM CDT, 1 minute before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
1143 PM CDT MON MAY 08 1989

TIME(CDT)   COUNTY        REPORT

2044 PM     ADAIR        QUARTER SIZE HAIL FELL 2 MILES WEST OF
                         WESTVILLE.
2100 PM     ADAIR        QUARTER SIZE HAIL 3 MILES NORTH OF WESTVILLE.
2135 PM     ADAIR        NICKEL SIZE HAIL FELL 2 MILES WEST OF
                         WESTVILLE.
2215 PM     ADAIR        DIME AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL FELL 2 MILES EAST OF
                         STILWELL.
2000-2030PM DELAWARE     A TORNADO OR STRONG WINDS DAMAGED TWO HOUSES..
                         DAMAGED OR DESTROYED A BARN AND DESTROYED A
                         MOBILE HOME. DETAILS ARE SKETCHY AT THIS TIMEx
                         AND MORE WILL FOLLOW AS WE RECEIVE THEM. NO
                         INJURIES WERE REPORTED.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	31 min
May 8, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	47 min
May 8, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	39 min
May 8, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	49 min
May 8, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	64 min
May 8, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	56 min
May 8, 11:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	43 min
May 9, 1:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell	42 min
May 9, 2:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	40 min
May 9, 2:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	65 min
May 9, 2:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	44 min
May 9, 3:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer	45 min
May 9, 3:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	63 min
May 9, 4:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Muskogee	54 min
May 8, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	54 min
May 8, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	57 min
May 8, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Washington	62 min
May 8, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	60 min
May 8, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin	58 min
May 8, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Logan, Scott	56 min
May 9, 3:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Polk	67 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.