Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 337, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 16, 1993, 9:41 AM CDT for Sebastian County, Arkansas. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 16, 1993, 9:41 AM CDT (14:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 16, 1993, 10:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sebastian County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 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 Oct 16, 3:15 AM CDT, 6 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 16, 3:15 AM CDT, 6 hours 26 minutes before
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Local storm report, Oct 16, 5:07 AM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before
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OKZ054-055-056-057-058-059-060-061-062-063-161345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 737 AM CDT SAT OCT 16 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A SMALL PART OF NORTHERN OKLAHOMA UNTIL 1100 AM... AT 730 AM...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA NORTHEAST OF A LINE FROM BARTLESVILLE TO POTEAU. THE STORMS WITHIN THIS AREA HAVE DECREASED IN INTENSITY SINCE 600 AM... BUT MAY STILL PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA THIS MORNING. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND THESE STORMS COULD BUILD INTO THE EXTREME NORTHERN PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.
Special weather statement, Oct 16, 7:38 AM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
OKZ054-055-056-057-058-059-060-061-062-063-161345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 737 AM CDT SAT OCT 16 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A SMALL PART OF NORTHERN OKLAHOMA UNTIL 1100 AM... AT 730 AM...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA NORTHEAST OF A LINE FROM BARTLESVILLE TO POTEAU. THE STORMS WITHIN THIS AREA HAVE DECREASED IN INTENSITY SINCE 600 AM... BUT MAY STILL PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA THIS MORNING. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND THESE STORMS COULD BUILD INTO THE EXTREME NORTHERN PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.
Special weather statement, Oct 16, 8:50 AM CDT, 51 minutes before
OKZ054-055-056-057-058-059-060-061-062-063-161450- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 850 AM CDT SAT OCT 16 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A SMALL PART OF NORTHERN OKLAHOMA UNTIL 1100 AM... AT 845 AM...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA EAST OF A LINE FROM WELCH TO WEBBERS FALLS. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS OVER ADAIR COUNTY SOUTHEAST OF STILWELL. OTHER SHOWERS WERE DEVELOPING OVER PAWNEE AND CREEK COUNTIES. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA THIS MORNING. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND THESE STORMS COULD BUILD INTO THE EXTREME NORTHERN PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.
Special weather statement, Oct 16, 8:51 AM CDT, 50 minutes before
OKZ054-055-056-057-058-059-060-061-062-063-161450- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 850 AM CDT SAT OCT 16 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A SMALL PART OF NORTHERN OKLAHOMA UNTIL 1100 AM... AT 845 AM...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA EAST OF A LINE FROM WELCH TO WEBBERS FALLS. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS OVER ADAIR COUNTY SOUTHEAST OF STILWELL. OTHER SHOWERS WERE DEVELOPING OVER PAWNEE AND CREEK COUNTIES. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA THIS MORNING. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND THESE STORMS COULD BUILD INTO THE EXTREME NORTHERN PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Oct 16, 12:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 36 min |
| Oct 16, 12:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 57 min |
| Oct 16, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 55 min |
| Oct 16, 1:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 33 min |
| Oct 16, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 45 min |
| Oct 16, 1:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 63 min |
| Oct 16, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Okmulgee | 60 min |
| Oct 16, 4:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 55 min |
| Oct 16, 5:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 57 min |
| Oct 16, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 46 min |
| Oct 16, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 65 min |
| Oct 16, 4:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 44 min |
| Oct 16, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 58 min |
| Oct 16, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 46 min |
| Oct 16, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 66 min |
| Oct 16, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee | 61 min |
| Oct 16, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 35 min |
| Oct 16, 9:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin | 58 min |
| Oct 16, 10:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin | 59 min |
| Oct 16, 10:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison | 53 min |
| Oct 16, 10:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Johnson, Logan | 61 min |
| Oct 16, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 56 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.