Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1995, 11:30 PM CDT for Washington County, Arkansas. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 1995, 11:30 PM CDT (04:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1995, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 2575 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1417 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 140432 SVRTUL ARC143-140515- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1130 PM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS ...WASHINGTON COUNTY AT 1129 PM TWO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER WASHINGTON COUNTY. THE FIRST STORM WAS JUST SOUTH OF STRICKLER. THE SECOND STORM WAS 2 MILES EAST OF SPRINGDALE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE TOWNS OF WINSLOW AND SPRING VALLEY ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. DURING THE STORM MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM LIGHTNING DO NOT USE THE TELEPHONE OR HAND HELD ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES...UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR WATER ON ROADWAYS AND NEVER DRIVE ONTO A FLOODED ROAD. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.
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 13, 9:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 9:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 918 PM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995 NOT MUCH TIME TO LOOK AT NEW DATA. MONSTER STORMS CONTINUE OVR XTRM NW AR/NE CRNR OK...WITH ISOLD NEW ECHOES SCTRL OK. WL KEEP ISOLD/SCTD TRW IN FCST IN TOR WTCH AREA AS WELL AS ACRS SE OK. MAY MAKE SOME CHGS TO TEMPS IN FEW ZNS...ESP WHR DWPTS REMAIN HI. ANOTHR S/W TROF INDCTD BY 12Z MDL DATA TO MOVE ACRS OK. MDLS INSIST LLVLN MOISTR WL BE LESS THAN TDAY. IF NOT... CUD GET MORE WDLY SCTD TRW. FOR NOW...NO CHGS PLANNED FOR TMRWS FCST. PW .TUL...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 48 min |
| May 13, 7:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Benton | 53 min |
| May 13, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Benton | 47 min |
| May 13, 8:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Benton | 46 min |
| May 13, 9:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Benton | 3 hr |
| May 13, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Carroll, Madison | 51 min |
| May 13, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 46 min |
| May 13, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 48 min |
| May 13, 9:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Benton, Washington | 53 min |
| May 13, 10:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Madison | 46 min |
| May 13, 10:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Madison, Washington | 49 min |
| May 13, 11:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Madison, Washington | 3 hr |
| May 13, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison | 52 min |
| May 14, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Washington | 45 min |
| May 14, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison | 35 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.