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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 326, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 8, 1993, 10:54 PM CDT for Polk County, Scott County, Arkansas. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 8, 1993, 10:54 PM CDT (03:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 8, 1993, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Polk County, AR, Scott County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 1936 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 611 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 7.4
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 8, 8:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 8, 8:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Oct 8, 6:27 PM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
OKZ054>077-090030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 627 PM CDT FRI OCT 8 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA... AT 625 PM...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN TULSA INDICATED A LINE OF DEVELOPING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THE LINE EXTENDED FROM NEAR JAY IN DELAWARE COUNTY TO NEAR MAZIE IN MAYES COUNTY TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF BEGGS TO CASTLE IN OKFUSKEE COUNTY. ANY OF THESE STORMS MAY INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE THIS EVENING AS THEY MOVE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
Special weather statement, Oct 8, 6:29 PM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
OKZ054>077-090030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 627 PM CDT FRI OCT 8 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA... AT 625 PM...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN TULSA INDICATED A LINE OF DEVELOPING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THE LINE EXTENDED FROM NEAR JAY IN DELAWARE COUNTY TO NEAR MAZIE IN MAYES COUNTY TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF BEGGS TO CASTLE IN OKFUSKEE COUNTY. ANY OF THESE STORMS MAY INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE THIS EVENING AS THEY MOVE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
Local storm report, Oct 8, 9:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 68 min |
| Oct 8, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 54 min |
| Oct 8, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Wagoner | 49 min |
| Oct 8, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 49 min |
| Oct 8, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 43 min |
| Oct 8, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 54 min |
| Oct 8, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 40 min |
| Oct 8, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 34 min |
| Oct 8, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 58 min |
| Oct 8, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee | 41 min |
| Oct 8, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Pittsburg | 49 min |
| Oct 8, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 41 min |
| Oct 8, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 59 min |
| Oct 8, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Polk | 58 min |
| Oct 8, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Johnson, Logan | 58 min |
| Oct 8, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 58 min |
| Oct 8, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Benton | 60 min |
| Oct 8, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 58 min |
| Oct 8, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Johnson | 69 min |
| Oct 8, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 59 min |
| Oct 8, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford | 40 min |
| Oct 8, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Johnson, Logan | 63 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.