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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 9, 1993Madison County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1993, 8:36 PM CDT for Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 1993, 8:36 PM CDT (01:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1993, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Madison County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 99 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: 2344 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 755 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.4

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The text

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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 Jun 9, 3:21 PM CDT, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 3:21 PM CDT, 5 hours 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
320 PM CDT WED JUN 9 1993

STG TRW NOW DVLPG ALG STNRY FRONT ACRS NE OK WITH A SVR CLUSTER OF
STORMS MOVG THRU CNTRL OK. XPCT HVY RAINS AND SVR WX THRU THIS EVE
WITH THE CONVXN WITH POTENTIAL FOR LOCALLY HVY RAINS IN TROPICAL-
LIKE MSTR. FFA ISSUED THIS MORN FOR SE OK WL BE CONTINUED AND EXPANDED
NORTH INTO NE OK NEAR THE FRONT. MAIN FLASH FLOOD THREAT WL BE FROM
VRY HVY SHORT TERM RAINS PSBLY 1.5-2 IN/HR WHICH CUD CAUSE PBLMS.
CUD ALSO BE SOME REPEAT STORMS ALG FRONT WHICH IS INITIALLY NORTH OF
TUL BUT MAY GET PUSHED S WITH OUTFLOW INTO EAST CNTRL OK LATER.

CHCS FOR TRW WL CONT THRU FRI...ALTHO POPS WL BE IN CHC CATGY AFTR
THURS AFTN. MODELS KEEP ERN OK IN MUGGY AIRMASS THRU FRI AND DAYTIME
HEATING AND UPR SYSM TO WEST WL ALLOW SCTD AFTN TRW TO FIRE FRI AFTN.

WL GENLY FOLLOW GUIDANCE TEMPS BUT WL KNOCK A FEW DEGS OFF TONITE AND
THURS FOR RAIN COOLED AIR. ALTHO WE CANT GET THE LFM GRAPHICS...THE
FPC GUIDANCE WL STILL BE HELPFUL. FPC DID FAIRLY WELL WITH MAX TEMPS
THIS AFTN AND SHUD BE CLOSE NEXT TWO AFTNS. LARGE STATISTICAL DATABASE
USU HELPS FPC/LFM DO WELL IN TEMP FCSTG IN WARM SEASON.

TUL 65V/80/69/84 8644      MLC 66/82/70/85 9644
BVO 63/79/66/83 7644      IDB 68/83/69/87 6533
                                                         ...09...

.OK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT ZONES 26 THRU 34.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
606 PM CDT WED JUN 09 1993

REPORTS FROM THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...

TIME (CDT)      COUNTY       EVENT

250 PM         PAWNEE        DIME SIZE HAIL 3 MILES EAST OF MARAMAC.

412 PM         OSAGE         QUARTER SIZE HAIL JUST WEST OF SKIATOOK.

553 PM         CHEROKEE      80 MPH WIND IN HULBERT

604 PM         CHEROKEE      70 MPH WIND AT TAHLEQUAH

602 PM         NOWATA        TORNADO REPORTED ON GROUND NORTH OF MIAMI.

Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:13 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
606 PM CDT WED JUN 09 1993

REPORTS FROM THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...

TIME (CDT)      COUNTY       EVENT

250 PM         PAWNEE        DIME SIZE HAIL 3 MILES EAST OF MARAMAC.

412 PM         OSAGE         QUARTER SIZE HAIL JUST WEST OF SKIATOOK.

553 PM         CHEROKEE      80 MPH WIND IN HULBERT

604 PM         CHEROKEE      70 MPH WIND AT TAHLEQUAH

602 PM         NOWATA        TORNADO REPORTED ON GROUND NORTH OF MIAMI.

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 7:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 9, 7:46 PM CDT, 50 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
Jun 10, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	38 min
Jun 9, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Madison, Sebastian	42 min
Jun 9, 7:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Crawford	38 min
Jun 9, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Polk, Scott	57 min
Jun 9, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Johnson	63 min
Jun 10, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Johnson	42 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.