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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 216, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 3, 1992Logan County, Scott County, Sebastian County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1992, 1:12 AM CDT for Logan County, Scott County, Sebastian County, Arkansas. It was in force for 63 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: Jul 3, 1992, 1:12 AM CDT (06:12 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 1992, 2:15 AM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Logan County, AR, Scott County, AR, Sebastian County, AR

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 3, 1:36 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 59	Sebastian, 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 202 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: 4506 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 900 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 142 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.5
Supercell composite: 13.5

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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.

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 2, 9:07 PM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 9:07 PM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
905 PM CDT THU JUL 2 1992

STRMS APR TO BE WEAKENING ATM BUT WL KEEP CHC SVR OVR EAST CENT ZNS TIL
MIDNIGHT. WL INCLUDE CHC OF STRMS IN SE ERLY THU AS FNTL BDRY LIKELY TO NOT
CLR SE OK TIL MIDDAY FRI. WL REMOVE POPS W OF LN AS N WNDS BRINGING
DRIER AIR TO REGION. NO CHGS FOR THE REMAINDER OF AFTN PACKAGE.

...10...

.OK...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 2, 10:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
1046 PM CDT THU JUL 02 1992

TIME         COUNTY         REPORT

840 PM       DELAWARE       HIGH WINDS KNOCKED DOWN TREE ON TOP OF
                            PICKUP NEAR GROVE.  (DELAWAE CO CD)

1031 PM      PITTSBURG      DIME SIZE HAIL 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
                            EUFAULA ALONG HIGHWAY 9.  (PITTSBURG
                            CO CD)

Local storm report, Jul 3, 12:01 AM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 3, 12:23 AM CDT, 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 3, 12:37 AM CDT, 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 3, 12:39 AM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 3, 12:41 AM CDT, 31 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers	62 min
Jul 2, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	51 min
Jul 2, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	60 min
Jul 2, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig	47 min
Jul 2, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Ottawa	44 min
Jul 2, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	52 min
Jul 2, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	56 min
Jul 2, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Wagoner	69 min
Jul 2, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	64 min
Jul 2, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh	42 min
Jul 2, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee	41 min
Jul 2, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	62 min
Jul 2, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	61 min
Jul 2, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Pittsburg	59 min
Jul 2, 10:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Muskogee	44 min
Jul 2, 11:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	63 min
Jul 2, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	62 min
Jul 3, 12:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	55 min
Jul 2, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	67 min
Jul 2, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	62 min
Jul 2, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	62 min
Jul 2, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin, Johnson	62 min
Jul 2, 10:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford	63 min
Jul 2, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin	59 min
Jul 3, 12:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Johnson	60 min
Jul 3, 12:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Logan, Sebastian	59 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.