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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 22, 1992Sebastian County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 1992, 12:35 PM CDT for Sebastian County, Arkansas. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 22, 1992, 12:35 PM CDT (17:35 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 1992, 1:00 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Sebastian County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 194 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1992-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1302 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1992-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1302 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
707 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jul 22, 9:48 AM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 9:48 AM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
945 AM CDT WED JUL 22 1992

TSTMS IN KS CONTINUE TO SLIDE SOUTHEAST AND ARE MAINTAINING THEIR
INTENSITY. PROFILER DATA SHOW G

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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.