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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 370, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 25, 1994Madison County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1994, 4:14 AM CDT for Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 25, 1994, 4:14 AM CDT (09:14 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 1994, 4:45 AM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Madison County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 99 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: 15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -272 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1556 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 234 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 Jul 25, 3:56 AM CDT, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 3:56 AM CDT, 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 24, 10:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1029 PM CDT SUN JUL 24 1994

TIME (CDT)     COUNTY/STATE     EVENT

1005 PM        CRTAWFORD/AR     DIME SIZE HAIL NEAR MULBERRY.

Local storm report, Jul 24, 10:32 PM CDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before

STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1032 PM CDT SUN JUL 24 1994

TIME (CDT)     COUNTY/STATE     EVENT

1005 PM        CRAWFORD/AR      DIME SIZE HAIL NEAR MULBERRY.

Local storm report, Jul 24, 10:41 PM CDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1041 PM CDT SUN JUL 24 1994

TIME (CDT)     COUNTY/STATE     EVENT

950-1000 PM    CRAWFORD/AR      BARN BLOWN DOWN AND POWER LINES DOWN
                                BETWEEN ALMA AND DYER.

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Local storm report, Jul 24, 10:42 PM CDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1041 PM CDT SUN JUL 24 1994

TIME (CDT)     COUNTY/STATE     EVENT

950-1000 PM    CRAWFORD/AR      BARN BLOWN DOWN AND POWER LINES DOWN
                  T              BETWEEN ALMA AND DYER.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 12:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa	55 min
Jul 25, 12:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	55 min
Jul 25, 1:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee	48 min
Jul 25, 2:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	64 min
Jul 24, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	44 min
Jul 24, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford	28 min
Jul 25, 2:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	52 min
Jul 25, 3:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	50 min
Jul 25, 3:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	30 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.