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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 364, NWS Tulsa, OK

November 1, 1992Benton County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 1, 1992, 12:24 AM CST for Benton County, Arkansas. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 1, 1992, 12:24 AM CST (06:24 UTC)
Expired: Nov 1, 1992, 1:30 AM CST
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Benton County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 74 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: 565 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 584 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 413 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 441 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.8

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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 Oct 31, 8:52 PM CST, 3 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 31, 8:52 PM CST, 3 hours 32 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
855 PM CST SAT OCT 31 1992

NO TIME FOR A DISC.  SELS NOTES REASONS VERY WELL FOR SVR WX TNGT.
WL LOOK AT 900 PM CONDS AND MAKE MINOR CHGS TO FIRST D IF NEEDED.
REST OF FCST WL BE UNCHGD.

..11..

.OK...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 31, 10:14 PM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1012 PM CST SAT OCT 31 1992

DATE/TIME (CST)   COUNTY       REPORT

1000 PM           TULSA        QUARTER SIZE HAIL NEAR PRATTVILLE.
1010 PM           CREEK        NICKLE SIZE HAIL 2 MILES WEST OF
                               BRISTOW.
1009 PM           TULSA        DIME SIZE HAIL IN THE CITY OF TULSA.

Local storm report, Oct 31, 11:45 PM CST, 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 31, 11:55 PM CST, 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, Nov 1, 12:17 AM CST, 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Nov 1, 12:20 AM CST, 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Nov 1, 12:23 AM CST, 1 minute 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
Oct 31, 6:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee	62 min
Oct 31, 7:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee	40 min
Oct 31, 8:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	59 min
Oct 31, 8:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	48 min
Oct 31, 8:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	66 min
Oct 31, 9:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	69 min
Oct 31, 10:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner	62 min
Oct 31, 10:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee	62 min
Oct 31, 11:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware, Muskogee, Wagoner	56 min
Oct 31, 11:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Okfuskee	56 min
Oct 31, 11:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Ottawa	31 min
Oct 31, 9:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	59 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.