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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 221, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 7, 1994Washington County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1994, 7:10 PM CDT for Washington County, Arkansas. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 1994, 7:10 PM CDT (00:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 1994, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Washington County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 63 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -734 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1796 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 378 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 Jun 7, 3:24 PM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 3:24 PM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
323 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 1994

WL HV LIKELY CATGY POPS EXTRM NRN ZNS TONITE AND TAPER TO 20 PCT OVR
SE OK. KS/MO MCS WL REDVLP AND INTENSIFY OVR CNTRL/SRN KS THIS AFTN AND
EVE AND SPREAD SE ACRS NE OK TONITE. SOME STORMS WILL LIKELY BE SVR OVR
NE OK THIS EVE/TONITE AND WL MENTION SVR IN THE ZNS. EACH PERIOD OF FCST
AFTR TONITE DEPENDENT ON WHAT HAPPENS THE PREV PERIOD WITH OUTFLOW AND
LINGERING MORN TRW. WL GENLY KEEP CHC POPS OVR NE OK WEDS THRU THURSDAY.
AND SLGT CHCS OVR THE SRN ZNS. COLD FRONT SHUD APCH NRN ZNS THURS MORN
AND SHUD PROVIDE THE FOCUS FOR TRW. AFTN TEMPS SHUD STILL BE WARM/HOT
AND REACH THE 90S WITH THE HELP OF INSOLATION AND VERY WARM LO LVL
TEMPS THRU THURS. WL GO SLIGHTLY COOLER IN THE NORTH ON THURS AS FRONT
AND MORE CLDS LIKELY TO BE IN AREA.
                                                     /9

TUL 69/93/70/89 5233    MLC 73/93/72/91 3223   MIO 67/88/67/85 7444
BVO 67/93/68/88 6343    IDB 72/94/72/94 2222

.TUL...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 7, 5:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
538 PM CDT TUE JUN 07 1994

DELAYED REPORT FROM MONDAY MORNING...JUNE 6...

TIME(CDT)    COUNTY       EVENT

130 AM       MUSKOGEE     60 MILE AN HOUR WINDS BLEW SEVERAL
                          OUTBUILDINGS OVER 3 MILES SOUTHWEST
                          OF WEBBERS FALLS.

150 AM       HASKELL      60 TO 70 MILE AN HOUR WINDS DOWNED
                          NUMEROUS TREES NEAR ENTERPRISE.

200 JAM       PITTSBURG    60 MILE AN HOUR WINDS BROKE OFF SEVERAL
                          LARGE TREE LIMBS AND OVERTURNED AN
                          OUTBUILDING NEAR QUINTON.

Local storm report, Jun 7, 5:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
544 PM CDT TUE JUN 07 1994

TIME(CDT)    COUNTY       EVENT

538 PM       DELAWARE     NUMEROUS LARGE TREE LIMBS BLOWN DOWN AT
                          GROVE.

Local storm report, Jun 7, 5:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
544 PM CDT TUE JUN 07 1994

TIME(CDT)    COUNTY       EVENT

538 PM       DELAWARE     NUMEROUS LARGE TREE LIMBS BLOWN DOWN AT
                          GROVTE.

Special weather statement, Jun 7, 6:29 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

OKZ054>064-067-068-069-070-080030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
629 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 1994

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM FOR PARTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA...

AT 627 PM...RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF
NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THE STORMS WERE LOCATED IN DELAWARE AND EASTERN
MAYES COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 4 MILES NORTH OF JAY.

MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THE LEADING EDGE OF RAIN-COOLED AIR FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING
SOUTHWEST ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. AT 627 PM...THE LEADING EDGE OF THE
RAIN COOLED AIR WAS LOCATED FROM PAWHUSKA TO COLLINSVILLE TO CHOUTEAU TO
2 MILES SOUTH OF WATTS. WINDS WILL BLOW FROM THE NORTHEAST AND GUST UP
TO 30 MPH AS THIS BOUNDARY MOVES SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST AT 30 MPH.

Special weather statement, Jun 7, 6:29 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

OKZ054>064-067-068-069-070-080030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
629 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 1994

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM FOR PARTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA...

AT 627 PM...RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF
NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THE STORMS WERE LOCATED IN DELAWARE AND EASTERN
MAYES COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 4 MILES NORTH OF JAY.

MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THE LEADING EDGE OF RAIN-COOLED AIR FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING
SOUTHWEST ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. AT 627 PM...THE LEADING EDGE OF THE
RAIN COOLED AIR WAS LOCATED FROM PAWHUSKA TO COLLINSVILLE TO CHOUTEAU TO
2 MILES SOUTH OF WATTS. WINDS WILL BLOW FROM THE NORTHEAST AND GUST UP
TO 30 MPH AS THIS BOUNDARY MOVES SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST AT 30 MPH.

Local storm report, Jun 7, 7:10 PM CDT, 0 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
Jun 7, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin	68 min
Jun 7, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Johnson	68 min
Jun 7, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Logan, Sebastian	63 min
Jun 7, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin	34 min
Jun 7, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Logan	53 min
Jun 8, 8:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	52 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.