Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 150, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 1994, 5:32 AM CDT for Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 1994, 5:32 AM CDT (10:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 1994, 6:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1271 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 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 Apr 29, 4:54 AM CDT, 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 4:54 AM CDT, 38 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Apr 29, 2:11 AM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
OKC061-077-079-121-290815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 212 AM CDT FRI APR 29 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA... AT 210 AM...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN TULSA INDICATED INCREASING THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THE STRONGEST STORM AT 210 AM WAS ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF MCALESTER...NEAR SAVANNA. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS IT MOVES SOUTH OF THE MCALESTER AREA. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER SOUTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA BETWEEN ADA AND DURANT. ALL OF THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR PUBLIC RADIO OR TV FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 29, 3:32 AM CDT, 2 hours before
OKZ065-066-070-071-073-074-290930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 332 AM CDT FRI APR 29 1994 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR PITTSBURG COUNTY EXPIRED AT 330 AM... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA UNTIL 8 AM... AT 331 AM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PRODUCED LARGE HAIL IN PITTSBURG COUNTY HAD WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS AND HAD MOVED INTO WESTERN HASKELL AND SOUTHERN MUSKOGEE COUNTIES. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERLOCATED IN WESTERN MCINTOSH AND SOUTHERN OKMULGEE COUNTIES...AND ALSO APPROACHING PITTSBURG COUNTY FROM THE SOUTH. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHE T30 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN AND< NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE APPROACH OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING...AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
Special weather statement, Apr 29, 4:56 AM CDT, 36 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 2:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 28 min |
| Apr 29, 2:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 46 min |
| Apr 29, 3:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Muskogee | 20 min |
| Apr 29, 4:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 50 min |
| Apr 29, 4:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 36 min |
| Apr 29, 4:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer | 51 min |
| Apr 29, 4:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin, Logan, Sebastian | 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.