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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 26, 1990Logan County, Scott County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1990, 2:16 PM CDT for Logan County, Scott County, Arkansas. It was in force for 59 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 26, 1990, 2:16 PM CDT (19:16 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 1990, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Logan County, AR, Scott 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
May 26, 2:45 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Logan, 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 nearest sounding before it

Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 306 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: 443 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -618 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 937 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KFSM 261917
SVRFSM
ARC083-127-262015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT SMITH AR
216 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT SMITH HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN WEST ARKANSAS
 
   ...SOUTHWESTERN LOGAN COUNTY...SCOTT COUNTY
 
AT 215 PM CDT FORT SMITH RADRA INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10
MILES EAST OF BOONEVILLE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR sBUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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 26, 10:32 AM CDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1030 AM CDT SAT MAY 26 1990

ATTN SELS...REPORTS FOR THIS MORNING, 5/26/90

TIME/CDT     COUNTY      EVENT
 558 AM      OSAGE       DIME SIZE HAIL AT FAIRFAX
 635 AM      PAWNEE      GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT RALSTON
 730 AM      OSAGE       DIME SIZE HAIL AT PAWHUSKA
 825 AM      OSAGE       DIME SIZE HAIL 5 MILES WEST OF BARTLESVILLE
 825 AM      WASHINGTON  DIME SIZE HAIL AT BARTLESVILLE
 837 AM      W\ASHINGTON  WIDESPREAD GOLFBALL SIZE AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL
                         AT BARTLESVILLE
 905 AM      WASHINGTON  DIME SIZE TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN BARTLESVILLE
 920 AM      NOWATA      DIME SIZE HAIL AT NOWATA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 9:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	57 min
May 26, 10:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison, Washington	60 min
May 26, 10:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	67 min
May 26, 12:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin	63 min
May 26, 12:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Logan	61 min
May 26, 1:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1990 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990

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.