Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 12:15 AM CDT for Crawford County, Washington County, Arkansas. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 1995, 12:15 AM CDT (05:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1995, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crawford County, AR, Washington County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
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 13, 9:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 9:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 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, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 40 min |
| May 13, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 45 min |
| 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, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 45 min |
| May 13, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison | 52 min |
| May 14, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison | 35 min |
Nearby
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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.