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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 266, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 30, 1994Benton County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1994, 2:50 PM CDT for Benton County, Arkansas. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 30, 1994, 2:50 PM CDT (19:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 1994, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Benton County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 74 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -369 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2256 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 30, 2:45 PM CDT, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 2:45 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 30, 2:16 PM CDT, 34 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
216 PM CDT THU JUN 30 1994

REPORT FROM WEDNESDAY NIGHT JUNE 29 1994

TIME         COUNTY       EVENT

1130 PM      CREEK        WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH ONE MILE SOUTH OF
                          IRON POST

Local storm report, Jun 30, 2:17 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
216 PM CDT THU JUN 30 1994

REPORT FROM WEDNESDAY NIGHT JUNE 29 1994

TIME         COUNTY       EVENT

1130 PM      CREEK        WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH ONE MILE SOUTH OF
                          IRON POST

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pawnee	40 min
Jun 29, 11:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	54 min
Jun 30, 12:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	45 min
Jun 30, 12:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Wagoner	50 min
Jun 30, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	61 min
Jun 30, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	61 min
Jun 30, 3:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	56 min
Jun 30, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	56 min
Jun 30, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	61 min
Jun 30, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Scott	62 min
Jun 30, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	61 min
Jun 30, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin, Logan	61 min
Jun 30, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford	61 min
Jun 30, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin	24 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1994 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994

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.