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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 198, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1994, 5:38 PM CDT for Benton County, Washington County, Arkansas. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1994, 5:38 PM CDT (22:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1994, 6:28 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Benton County, AR, Washington County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 304 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
- 1372 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 771 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 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 Jun 4, 9:59 AM CDT, 7 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 9:59 AM CDT, 7 hours 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1000 AM CDT SAT JUN 4 1994 OLD FNT IS DIFFICULT TO LOCATE...BUT PROBABLY LIES FM SE OK THRU CNTRL OK...N OF OKC...INTO THE ERN OK PANHANDLE. SLOW MOVG SHWRS AND A FEW TSTRMS REDEVELOPED ALG THIS BNDRY OVR ERN OK EARLY THIS MORNING...BUT ACTIVITY IS WKNG AS IT EXITS E INTO AR. WILL SEE PULSE/DIURNAL CONVECTION TDY...MUCH LIKE YSTRDY...AS DAYTIME HEATING WILL OVERCOME CAP ON 12Z OUN SOUNDING. MOISTURE NOT A PROBLEM WITH MESONET SFC DWPTS GENERALLY IN THE LOW TO MID 70S...AND CURRENT 850 DWPTS OF +14C TO +16C OVR OK. COMBINATION OF CONVG WITH DYING FNT AND PASSAGE OF WK SHRTWV SHUD ALLOW FOR LATE AFTN TSTRMS.J..MAINLY VCNTY OF FNT AS IT LIFTS SLOWLY N. CURRENT FCST LOOKS GUD...NO CHANGES PLANNED. .TUL...NONE. ...18...
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 3:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
OKZ060-042145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 345 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER TULSA METROPOLITAN AREA... AT 342 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN TULSA COUNTY FROM NORTH OF ADMIRAL STREET TO THE SOUTH SIDE OF OWASSO. MOVEMENT OF THE STORM WAS SLOWLY NORTH AT 5 MI SAN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MILES AN HOUR. ALSO...DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE...PARTICULARLY IN THE OWASSO AREA. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 3:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
OKZ060-042145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 345 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER TULSA METROPOLITAN AREA... AT 342 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN TULSA COUNTY FROM NORTH OF ADMIRAL STREET TO THE SOUTH SIDE OF OWASSO. MOVEMENT OF THE STORM WAS SLOWLY NORTH AT 5 MI SAN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MILES AN HOUR. ALSO...DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE...PARTICULARLY IN THE OWASSO AREA. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 5:02 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 4:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 3 hr |
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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.