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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 118, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 8, 1995Crawford County, Sebastian County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1995, 12:29 AM CDT for Crawford County, Sebastian County, Arkansas. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 8, 1995, 12:29 AM CDT (05:29 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 1995, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Crawford County, AR, Sebastian County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 464 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 648 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 191 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 267 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.5

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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 May 7, 9:01 PM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 9:01 PM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
845 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 1995

LN OF SVR STORMS JUST ENTERING WESTERN PART OF FA...EXTENDS
WELL SOUTH INTO TX. OUN SOUNDING CONTAINED OVER 2500 J/KG
CAPE AND CLOSE TO 200 M/S/S...AND MESONET OBS SHOW SFC
DEWPT IN LOWER 70S AHEAD OF STORMS IN E OK. WINDS VEER TO
JUST TO THE WEST BEHIND SQUALL LINE WITH DWPTS DROPING INTO UPPER
50S...BUT WINDS OVER WESTERN OK HAVE BACKED TO SOUTH AHEAD OF
REAL DRYLINE STILL OVER EASTERN PART OF TX PH.

EXPECT SQUALL LN TO CONT TO DVLP EASTWARD INTO FA DURING THE
REST OF THE NIGHT AS MID LVL CAA MOVES OVR HIGHER DWPTS.
MOST OF NE OK HAS ALREADY RECEIVED FROM 1 TO 4 INCHES OF
RAIN AND ADDITIONAL RAINS CUD CAUSE MAJOR FLOODING PROBLEMS.
MANY RIVERS IN NE OK NEAR OR OVR BANKFULL SO BACKWATER WILL ADD
TO FLASH FLOOD POTENTIAL.
FLASH FLOOD GUIDENCE ALSO LOW OVR REST OF FA...AND FROM 2 TO 4
INCHES OF RAIN MAY FALL ELSEWHERE THROUGH EARLY MONDAY MORNING.
WILL KEEP FFA GOING AS IN PREV FCST.

NO NEW MODEL DATA TO LUK AT...BUT APPEARS LLVL MOIST SHUD SHALLOW OUT
QUICKLY MONDAY MORNING FROM WEST TO EAST. BEST CHC FOR LINGERING
MORNING TRW IN SE OK AND W ARK.

WILL UP POPS TO CLOSE TO 100% OVR ALL OF FA REST OF TONIGHT. PCP SHUD
TAPER AFTER MIDNIGHT FROM W TO E...BUT WILL LEAVE SLGT CHC IN WRN ZNS
FOR MORNING RW AND 40-50% POPS IN EASTERN ZNS ON MONDAY.
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.TUL...FFA OKZ054>077-ARZ001-002-010-011-019-0029 TONIGHT.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 7, 10:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1045 PM CDT SUN MAY 07 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0905 PM    BARTLESVILLE              OK   WIND DAMAGE
05/07/95   WASHINGTON                     NUMEROUS TREES AND
                                          POWER LINES DOWN IN THE
                                          CITY OF BARTLESVILLE.

0915 PM    OKMULGEE                  OK   WIND DAMAGE
05/07/95   OKMULGEE                       NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
                                          IN THE CITY OF OKMULGEE.

0930 PM    TULSA                     OK   WIND DAMAGE
05/07/95   TULSA                          GARAGE DESTROYED NEAR
                                          3900 EAST 15TH STREET.

Local storm report, May 7, 11:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1101 PM CDT SUN MAY 07 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1020 PM    PITCHER                   OK   70 MPH TSTM GUST.
05/07/95   OTTAWA

1027 PM    MIAMI                     OK   0.88 INCH HAIL
05/07/95   OTTAWA                         NUMEROUS REPORTS OF
                                          DIME AND NICKLE SIZE
                                          AROUND MIAMI.

Local storm report, May 7, 11:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1108 PM CDT SUN MAY 07 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1058 PM    CHEROKEE CITY             AR   WIND DAMAGE
05/07/95   BENTON                         TREES AND POWER LINES
                                          BLOWN DOWN.

1100 PM    HIAWASSE                  AR   WIND DAMAGE
05/07/95   BENTON                         TREES BLOWN DOWN.

Local storm report, May 7, 11:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1118 PM CDT SUN MAY 07 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0538 PM    3 ESE OKEMAH              OK   TORNDAO
05/07/95   OKFUSKEE                       SPOTTERS REPORTED A
                                          BRIEF TOUCHDOWN 3 MILES
                                          EAST SOUTHEAST OF OKEMAH...
                                          SEVERAL HOMES WERE REPORTED
                                          DAMAGED AND POWER LINES
                                          WERE DOWN.

Local storm report, May 7, 11:37 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Mayes	68 min
May 7, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee	68 min
May 7, 10:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	2 hr
May 7, 10:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	48 min
May 7, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	40 min
May 7, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer	51 min
May 8, 12:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	64 min
May 7, 11:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll, Madison	55 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.