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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 2, 1994Sebastian County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 1994, 11:27 PM CST for Sebastian County, Arkansas. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 1994, 11:27 PM CST (05:27 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 1994, 12:20 AM CST
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Sebastian County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 194 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

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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, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 9:04 PM CST, 2 hours 23 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, 8:06 PM CST, 3 hours 21 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, 2 hours 35 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, 2 hours 27 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, 2 hours 6 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, 1 hour 54 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.

Special weather statement, Apr 2, 10:43 PM CST, 44 minutes before

OKC061-030545-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1041 PM CST (1141 PM CDT) SAT APR 2 1994

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF EASTERN
OKLAHOMA UNTIL MIDNIGHT.

AT 1040 PM A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED ACROSS EAST CENTRAL
OKLAHOMA FROM NEAR FORT SMITH TO NEAR KINTA IN HASKELL COUNTY.  THESE
STORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVED EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH THROUGH HASKELL COUNTY
BETWEEN NOW AND 1130 PM.

HEAVY RAINS FROM THESE STORMS MAY CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND
MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION.

STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 10:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Scott, Sebastian	65 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

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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.