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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 441, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 3, 1994, 8:23 PM CST for Sebastian County, Arkansas. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 3, 1994, 8:23 PM CST (02:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 3, 1994, 9:15 PM CST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sebastian County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 232 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 847 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 294 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Nov 3, 4:12 PM CST, 4 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 3, 4:12 PM CST, 4 hours 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 410 PM CST THU NOV 3 1994 TSTMS FORMING OVER VIRTUALLY ALL OF FA WITH AMPLE MOISTURE IN SERN ZNS AND SURFACE HEATING IN NERN ZNS. MORNING SOUNDINGS SHOD LITTLE CAPPING AND STEEP LAPSE RATES TO WORK WITH. CD FNT STILL APPRS AHD OF SCHDL. NEXRAD SHOS FNT ALRDY INTO NWRN ZNS. AM WONDERING IF IT WL STALL OUT OVR NERN ZNS TEMPORARILY TMRW. THUS A BIG ? OF TIMING. BLV PCPN WL CONTINUE BHND FNT WITH MAJORITY OF PVA TRACKING ACRS FA EARLY SAT MORN. ALSO WRAP AROUND MOISTURE MAY AFFECT XTRM NE ZNS SAT AFTN. ETA IS MDL OF CHOICE FOR UPPR LVLS. NGM IS TO FAST AND TO FAR N AND AVN TO SLO. BLV AVN HANDLED BEST AT SFC WI"TH SAGGING OF FNT OVR TX. ZNS BHND SCHDL DUE TO SVR WX. 21 TUL 63/67 46/56 7652 MLC 69/74 56/62 8742 BVO 56/64 44/52 6652 IDB 68/74 58/60 6852 .TUL...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 3, 3:55 PM CST, 4 hours 28 minutes before
OKZ060-061-064-066-067-032300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 354 PM CST THU NOV 3 1994 AT 350 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SHORT LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM CATOOSA TO BROKEN ARROW TO SLICK IN SOUTHEAST CREEK COUNTY. THIS LINE IS MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AROUND 25 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND SOME SMALL HAIL MAY BE EXPECTED ANYWHERE ALONG THIS LINE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA UN^TIL 6 PM.
Local storm report, Nov 3, 5:40 PM CST, 2 hours 43 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, Nov 3, 6:16 PM CST, 2 hours 7 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 616 PM CST THU NOV 3 1994 TIME (CST) COUNTY/STATE EVENT 615 PM MAYES/OK NICKEL SIZE HAIL 1 MILE NORTH OF PRYOR
Local storm report, Nov 3, 7:07 PM CST, 1 hour 16 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 707 PM CST THU NOV 3 1994 TIME (CST) COUNTY/STATE EVENT 620 PM TULSA/OK DIME SIZE HAIL 1 MILE EAST OF OWASSO 700 PM LE FLORE/OK DIME SIZE HAIL IN HEAVENER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 3, 6:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 58 min |
| Nov 3, 6:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 20 min |
| Nov 3, 6:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 50 min |
| Nov 3, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 45 min |
| Nov 3, 8:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata, Rogers | 63 min |
| Nov 3, 8:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa | 48 min |
| Nov 3, 8:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 34 min |
| Nov 3, 9:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 50 min |
| Nov 3, 9:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 62 min |
| Nov 3, 9:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 46 min |
| Nov 4, 4:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Tulsa | 45 min |
| Nov 4, 5:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa | 44 min |
| Nov 4, 6:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 61 min |
| Nov 4, 7:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Muskogee, Pittsburg | 67 min |
| Nov 4, 12:52 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 6 hr |
| Nov 3, 7:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 41 min |
| Nov 4, 11:42 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Crawford | 7 hr |
| Nov 4, 2:17 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 4 hr |
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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.