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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 125, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 27, 1994Polk County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 1994, 12:24 AM CDT for Polk County, Arkansas. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 27, 1994, 12:24 AM CDT (05:24 UTC)
Expired: Apr 27, 1994, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Polk County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 240 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: 3287 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1204 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.3
Supercell composite: 10.6

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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 Apr 26, 9:13 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 9:13 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 26, 6:51 PM CDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 26, 6:57 PM CDT, 5 hours 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 26, 8:23 PM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Apr 26, 11:26 PM CDT, 58 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
Apr 26, 11:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Ottawa	41 min
Apr 27, 12:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	38 min
Apr 27, 1:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	60 min
Apr 27, 1:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell	54 min
Apr 27, 1:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	62 min
Apr 27, 1:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	64 min
Apr 27, 1:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	36 min
Apr 27, 1:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	51 min
Apr 27, 2:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer	58 min
Apr 27, 2:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford	68 min
Apr 27, 2:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	49 min
Apr 27, 2:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Crawford	46 min
Apr 27, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Madison	47 min
Apr 27, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Washington	28 min
Apr 27, 3:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Madison	44 min
Apr 27, 3:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton	28 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.