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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 5, 1992Washington County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1992, 7:59 PM CST for Washington County, Arkansas. It was in force for 61 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: Mar 5, 1992, 7:59 PM CST (01:59 UTC)
Expired: Mar 5, 1992, 9:00 PM CST
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Washington County, AR

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 5, 8:00 PM CST	Hail 1	Washington, 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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 469 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1454 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFSM 060159
SVRFSM
ARC143-060300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT SMITH AR
759 PM CST THU MAR 5 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT SMITH HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
 
   ...WASHINGTON COUNTY
 
AT 757 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER THE WESTFORK AREA
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STOR(M HAS PASSED.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 5, 8:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1992 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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.