Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1992, 3:11 AM CDT for Polk County, Arkansas. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 1992, 3:11 AM CDT (08:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 1992, 4:05 AM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Polk County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 240 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1655 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1702 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFSM 200812 SVRFSM ARC113-200915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT SMITH AR 311 AM CDT SAT JUN 20 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT SMITH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS ...POLK COUNTY AT 310 AM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MENA OR NEAR HATFIELD. THE STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 9:45 PM CDT, 5 hours 26 minutes before
OKZ026-027-028-029-030-031-032-033-034-040-200345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 944 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NOW IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA UNTIL 4AM SATURDAY MORNING. AS OF 942 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM AROUND TULSA TO NEAR PONCA CITY. IN ADDITION AN ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER NORTHERN CREEK COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST LAT 35 MPH. PERSON IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY DETERIORATING CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR FURTHER INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
Local storm report, Jun 20, 1:04 AM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
105 AM CDT SAT JUN 20 1992
DELAYED REPORTS FROM JUNE 19, 1992
TIME COUNTY REPORT
130 PM OSAGE DIME SIZE HAIL AT BOWRING
200 PM OSAGE 60 MPH WINDS AT BURBANK
206 PM OSAGE 60 MPH WINDS AT FAIRFAX...FUNNEL 2 N OF
HOMINY
216 PM OSAGE TORNADO 2NW OF HOMINY
230 PM OSAGE 70 MPH WINDS SOUTH OF HOMINY
246 PM TULSA 60 MPH WINDS AT OWASSO
252 PM TULSA GUSTS TO 100 MPH ATT KEYSTONE LAKE DAM
300-315 PM CREEK 80 TO 100 MPH WINDS AT SAPULPA
306 PM TULSA GUST TO 61 MPH AT TULSA AIRPORT
309 PM PAWNEE EST. WINDS 100 MPH AT KEYPORT AND WESTPORT
MARINAS
1011-1030 PM CREEK DIME/GOLFBALL HAIL FROM SHAMROCK TO BRISTOW
1119 PM CREEK GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT DEPEWSpecial weather statement, Jun 20, 1:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
OKZ026>034-040-200730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 121 AM CDT SAT JUN 20 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4AM FOR MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. AT 116AM RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR CHECOTAH IN NORTHERN MCINTOSH COUNTY TO NEAR ASHLAND IN SOUTHWESTERN PITTSBURG COUNTY. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL PRODUCE A PERIOD OF VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH. THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER RECEIVED WITH THESE STORMS SINCE 1117PM FRIDAY EVENING. HOWEVERE THERE REMAINS A CHANCE THAT THESE STORMS MAY STILL BRIEFLY INCREASE BACK TO SEVERE LEVELS AND THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH FOR MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4AM. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER NORTH OF THESE STORMS CONTINUED TO DECREASE AND THE NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA PORTION OF THE WATCH MAY BE CANCELLED EARLY. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 2:27 AM CDT, 44 minutes before
OKZ033-034-040-200830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 226 AM CDT SAT JUN 20 1992 ....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 417 HAS BEEN CANCELLED.... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 417...FOR A LARGE PART OF OKLAHOMA...HAS BEECANCELLED AND REPLACED BY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 419 FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA. THE NEW WATCH INCLUDES PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM NEAR PAGE...IN LE FLORE COUNTY...TO MCALESTER. ALL PORTIONS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA NORTH OF THAT LINE ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. ALTHOUGH SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSHOWERS REMAIN POSSIBLE OVER NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA THROUGH THE NIGHT...THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER EXTREME SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA.
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.