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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 8, 1992Crawford County, Sebastian County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 1992, 9:42 PM CST for Crawford County, Sebastian County, Arkansas. It was in force for 63 min. 2 reports 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: Mar 8, 1992, 9:42 PM CST (03:42 UTC)
Expired: Mar 8, 1992, 10:45 PM CST
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Crawford County, AR, Sebastian County, AR

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 8, 9:57 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Sebastian, AR
Mar 8, 10:10 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Crawford, 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

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 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-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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1340 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 225 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, Mar 8, 4:31 PM CST, 5 hours 11 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
427 PM CST SUN MAR 08 1992

TIME(CST)       COUNTY         REPORT

1245 PM         OKMULGEE       QUARTER SIZE HAIL 3 MILES SOUTHEAST
                       t        OF HENRYETTA

Local storm report, Mar 8, 4:41 PM CST, 5 hours 1 minute before

STORM REPORT CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
431 PM CST SUN MAR 08 1992

CORRECTED REPORTS FOR MARCH 8...CHANGED TIMES FROM CDT TO CST

TIME(CST)       COUNTY         REPORT

1115 AM         PITTSBURG      NICKLE SIZE HAIL REPORTED JUST SOUTH
                               OF KIOWA BY THE KIOWA CIVIL DEFENSE

1240 PM         PITTSBURG      SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED MARBLE SIZE
                               HAIL AT CANADIAN

1240 PM         PITTSBURG      COOP OBSERVER REPORTED NICKLE SIZE
                               HAIL AT CROWDER

1219 PM         OKFUSKEE       HENRYETTA POLICE REPORTED 2 INCH
                               HAIL AT CLEARVIEW

1215 PM         OKFUSKEdE       3/4 INCH HAIL AT OKEMAH

Local storm report, Mar 8, 4:44 PM CST, 4 hours 58 minutes before

STORM REPORT CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
443 PM CST SUN MAR 08 1992

CORRECTED REPORT FROM FEBRUARY 17...CHANGED TIME FROM CDT TO CST

TIME(CST)       COUNTY         REPORT

100 AM          OSAGE          DIME SIZE HAIL AT PERSHING

Special weather statement, Mar 8, 6:00 PM CST, 3 hours 42 minutes before

OKZ026>034-040-090100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
600 PM CST SUN MAR 8 1992

...BE READY FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA THIS EVENING...

INTENSE STORMS OVER SOUTH-CENTRAL OKLAHOMA WILL BE MOVING INTO
EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE LATER THIS EVENING.  CONDITIONS ARE
FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND EVEN A
FEW TORNADOES.  REMEMBER THAT ALL THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING...SO STAY INDOORS WHEN STORMS ARE OCCURRING IN YOUR AREA.

THE FIRST THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH PITTSBURG COUNTY AROUND 630 PM
AND CONTINUE TO SPREAD NORTHEASTWARD.  THE LEADING EDGE OF THE
ACTIVITY WILL REACH FROM TULSA TO FORT SMITH AS EARLY AS 8 PM.
STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION.

Special weather statement, Mar 8, 8:21 PM CST, 1 hour 21 minutes before

OKZ031-033-090320-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
820 PM CST SUN MAR 8 1992

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...

THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
AT 820 PM.  THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER SOUTHERN PITTSBURG COUNTY
AND WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL AND INTENSE LIGHTNING.  OTHER STORMS
WERE OVER HASKELL AND LATIMER COUNTIES.  ALL OF THE STORMS WERE
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

STAY INDOORS WHEN STORMS ARE OCCURRING IN YOUR AREA.
STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION.

Local storm report, Mar 8, 9:16 PM CST, 26 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
914 PM CST SUN MAR 08 1992

.....REPORTS FOR MARCH 9TH

TIME(CST)       COUNTY         REPORT

901 PM          HASKELL        DIME SIZE HAIL AT MCCURTAIN A&ND KEOTA.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 8, 8:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell	32 min
Mar 8, 9:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	68 min
Mar 8, 9:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	41 min
Mar 9, 12:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	48 min

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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.