Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 339, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 21, 1992, 5:01 PM CDT for Franklin County, Logan County, Arkansas. It was in force for 59 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
- Sep 21, 1992, 5:01 PM CDT (22:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 1992, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Franklin County, AR, Logan County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 5:15 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Logan, AR | |
| Sep 21, 5:35 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
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1547 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Sep 21, 3:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 21, 3:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
330 PM CDT MON SEP 21 1992
MODELS IN RSNBL AGREEMENT ON FRONT MOVG THRU ERN OK WITH DRIER AND
COOLER WEATHER. GUID TEMPS IN RATHER CLOSE AGREEMENT ON HIGHS AND
LOWS SO WILL FOLLOW THOSE WITH ONLY MINOR ADJUSTMENTS.
THE PROBLEM IS WHEN THE PCPN WILL MOVE OUT OF ERN OK THIS AFTERNOON.
AT 330 APRS A LINE IS FORMING ALG CDFNT FROM S/CNTRL KS TO SWRN OK.
GIVEN THE MSTR AND INSTBY IN ERN OK...WILL INCLUDE A CHANCE OF TSTMS
FOR ALL OF ERN OK THRU AT LEAST EARLY EVENING. SOUTHEAST ZONES WILL
HAVE A GOOD CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. FLASH
FLOOD GUIDANCE IS LOW OVER THOSE ZONES...BUT FEEL THE THREAT WILL BE IN
THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS...AND THAT WILL BE BEST COVERED WITH WARNINGS
...IF NECESSARY...AND NOT A WATCH.
PRELIM NMBRS... TUL 62/81/52/81 4000 MLC 64/82/53/82 4000
BVO 58/78/50/80 4000 IDB 67/84/58/82 6100
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.OK...NONE.In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 21, 1:01 PM CDT, 4 hours before
OKZ026>034-040-221200- EASTERN OKLAHOMA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 100 PM CDT MON SEP 21 1992 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE RISK AREA INCLUDES PARTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM OILTON TO TULSA TO JAY. A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM HAS DEVELOPED OVER SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA AHEAD OF A STRONG UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM. THE ATMOSPHERE OVER MUCH OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA REMAINS MOIST AND MARGINALLY UNSTABLE. SURFACE HEATING WILL DESTABLIZE THE ATMOSPHERE SUFFICIENTLY TO ALLOW THUNDERSTORMS WHICH DO DEVELOP TO INTENSIFY RAPIDLY. THE VERTICAL WIND PROFILE MAY ALSO BE FAVORABLE FOR ISOLATED TORNADO FORMATION WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. SATELLITE PICTURES INDICATE CLOUDS HAVE BEEN BREAKING UP IN SOUTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEGUN TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IN THAT AREA WHERE THE SUNSHINE AND CLOUDS HAVE CREATED A TEMPERATURE BOUNDARY. THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD INTENSIFY AS THEY MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OVER 60 MPH. THERE IS A SMALL CHANCE THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP AS FAR NORTH AS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. HOWEVER...THE EXTENSIVE CLOUD COVER OVER THE AREA MAY HAMPER ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THERE. SPOTTER NETWORKS ACROSS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR ACTIVATION AT ANY TIME. PEOPLE THERE SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND STAYED TUNED FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS.
Local storm report, Sep 21, 3:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 357 PM CDT MON SEP 21 1992 TIME (CDT) COUNTY REPORT 320 PM HASKELL DIME SIZE HAIL 4 MILES EAST OF STIGLER
Local storm report, Sep 21, 4:12 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 412 PM CDT MON SEP 21 1992 TIME (CDT) COUNTY REPORT 310 PM HASKELL NICKEL SIZE HAIL IN STIGLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 52 min |
| Sep 20, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 48 min |
| Sep 20, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 45 min |
| Sep 20, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 57 min |
| Sep 21, 12:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 6 hr |
| Sep 21, 6:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 46 min |
| Sep 21, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 65 min |
| Sep 21, 5:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Johnson | 59 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.