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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 2, 1994LeFlore County, Oklahoma; Scott County, Sebastian County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 1994, 10:10 PM CST for LeFlore County, Oklahoma; Scott County, Sebastian County, Arkansas. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 1994, 10:10 PM CST (04:10 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 1994, 11:15 PM CST
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Scott County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, LeFlore County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 218 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: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1850 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 239 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 Apr 2, 9:04 PM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 9:04 PM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
903 PM CST SAT APR 2 1994

SCTD STG/SVR TRW ONGOING OVR FA. VORT MAX NR END AT 02Z IS MOVG EWD AND
SHUD MOVE INTO ARK/MO AFT 06Z AND TAKE THREAT OF SVR WX EWD WITH IT.
COLD FRONT CONTS A GUD SEWD PUSH AND AT 0230Z EXTDD ACRS SRN PARTS OF
ZNS 68/69 SWWD TO A SFC LOW ABT 10 W MLC. EXPCT FRONT TO CONT MOVG SEWD
AND CLR SE CORNER BY 10Z. XPCT TRW TO CONT AHD OF UPR TROF/VORT MAX EVEN
NORTH OF THE FRONT THRU MIDNITE. TRW SHUD MOVE OUT OF OK BY 08 TO 09Z
AS CAA AND SUBSIDENCE DVLPS BEHIND THE SHORTWV AND COLD FRONT.

N WNDS ARE GUSTY BEHIND THE FRONT...AND MAY MENTION CAUTIONS ON LAKES
OVR PARTS OF FA FOR A PD BEFORE WLNDS DIE DOWN LATER. WL ALSO MAKE
SOME FIRST PD ADJUSTMENTS TO TEMPS. LUKS LIKE EASTER SUN SHUD BE
SUNNY AND MILD AS TEMPS RECOVER TO 60S AFTR A COOL MORN.
                                                             /9

.TUL...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 2, 7:59 PM CST, 2 hours 11 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
758 PM CDT SAT APR 02 1994

TIME(CST)    COUNTY       EVENT

730 PM       PITTSBURG    QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN ASHLAND

Local storm report, Apr 2, 8:06 PM CST, 2 hours 4 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
805 PM CST SAT APR 02 1994

TIME(CST)    COUNTY       EVENT

740 PM       PITTSBURG    NICKLE SIZE HAIL IN PITTSBURG

802 PM       PITTSBURG    QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN KIOWA

Local storm report, Apr 2, 8:52 PM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
851 PM CST SAT APR 02 1994

TIME(CST)    COUNTY       EVENT

817 PM       PITTSBURG    QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN KIOWA...COVERED
                          THE GROUND

845 PM       OKMULGEE     NICKLE SIZE HAIL IN OKMULGEE

Local storm report, Apr 2, 9:00 PM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
859 PM CST SAT APR 02 1994

TIME(CST)    COUNTY       EVENT

835 PM       LATIMER      QUARTER SIZE HAIL JUST SOUTHWEST OF
                          WILBU@RTON

Local storm report, Apr 2, 9:21 PM CST, 49 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
919 PM CST SAT APR 02 1994

TIME(CST)    COUNTY       EVENT

900 PM       MUSKOGEE     DIME SIZE HAIL AT BOYNTON

910 PM       LATIMER      DIME SIZE HAIL AT BENGAL

Local storm report, Apr 2, 9:33 PM CST, 37 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
925 PM CST SAT APR 02 1994

TIME(CST)    COUNTY       EVENT

600 PM       CREEK        DAMAGE IN DRUMRIGHT...COOLING TOWER AT THE
                          HOSPITAL WAS BLOWN OFF THE ROOF.  SEVERAL TREES
                          DOWN.  UTILITY LINES WERE DOWNED.
                          A NUMBER OF HOUSES HAD ROOF DAMAGE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 6:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	56 min
Apr 2, 6:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers	50 min
Apr 2, 6:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	48 min
Apr 2, 7:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Wagoner	51 min
Apr 2, 7:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	63 min
Apr 2, 7:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	30 min
Apr 2, 8:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg	48 min
Apr 2, 8:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	43 min
Apr 2, 8:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	57 min
Apr 2, 8:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	50 min
Apr 2, 8:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer	47 min
Apr 2, 10:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee	42 min
Apr 2, 10:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	30 min
Apr 2, 10:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	46 min
Apr 2, 10:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell	39 min
Apr 2, 11:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	56 min
Apr 2, 11:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh	40 min
Apr 2, 11:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	53 min
Apr 2, 11:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin	61 min
Apr 3, 12:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Logan	62 min
Apr 3, 4:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Johnson	60 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.