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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 17, 1995Crawford County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1995, 9:43 PM CDT for Crawford County, Arkansas. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 17, 1995, 9:43 PM CDT (02:43 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 1995, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Crawford County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 289 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3409 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 180243
SVRTUL
ARC033-180330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
943 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
 
   ...SOUTHERN CRAWFORD COUNTY
 
AT 943 PM...RADAR IN TULSA INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR FORT
SMITH MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. VAN BUREN AND ALMA ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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 17, 9:07 PM CDT, 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 9:07 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
900 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

AT 0130Z...DRYLINE EXTENDS FM LOW OVR NCNTRL OK EWD THRU OSAGE
CTY...THEN S THRU TUL...OKMULGEE...W OF MLC TO ADM. NRN PORTION
OF DRYLINE HAS SHOWN A GRADUAL EWD PUSH...WITH SRN END EITHER
STNRY OR SLOWLY RETREATING WWD.  I AM LTL CONCERNED THAT MID LVL
COOLING FCST INTO AREA CUD RE-IGNITE ADDTIONAL CONVECTION ALG
DRYLINE LATER THIS EVENING.  HOWEVER...12Z MDLS DID A POOR JOB
DEPICTING COLD POOL ALOFT ASSOCD WITH H5 LOW CURRENTLY OVR SW KS.
ATTM...APPEARS BEST MID LVL CAA WL MV THRU SRN KS/FAR NRN OK...
FARTHER N THAN PREVIOUSLY ANTICIPATED.  IN ADDITION...BEST LLVL
JET HAS SHIFTED EWD INTO CNTRL AR.  COORD WITH SELS AND THEY WL
LET TOR WATCHES 422/423 EXPIRE AT 10PM...WITH NW AR UNDER TOR WATCH
TIL MIDNIGHT.

WL HV TO RE-ARRANGE ZNS SOME TO FIT POSITION OF DRYLINE...BASICALLY
DROPPING POPS ALL AREAS W OF DRYLINE.  DUE TO VRY ISOLD NATURE OF
DEVELOPMENT SO FAR...WL DROP POPS IN AREAS ALG AND AHD OF DRYLINE.
TEMPS WL BE A BEAR DUE TO UNCERTAINTY OF DRYLINE POSITION OVERNIGHT.
NEW ETA SHOWS GUD WRAPARND MOISTURE INTO FA TOMORROW...SO WL ADD
SLGT CHC POPS FOR RWP-.

.TUL...NONE.

HODGES

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 17, 6:36 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
634 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

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

0600 PM    DEWEY              J       OK   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/17/95   WASHINGTON

0615 PM    5 S BVO                   OK   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/17/95   WASHINGTON

0615 PM    5 S BVO                   OK   70 MPH WINDS
05/17/95   WASHINGTON

Local storm report, May 17, 7:11 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
710 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

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

0635 PM    5 E INOLA                 OK   0.88 INCH HAIL
05/17/95   ROGERS

0635 PM    5 E INOLA                 OK   70 MPH WIND GUST
05/17/95   ROGERS

0645 PM    2E CHOUTEAU               OK   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/17/95   MAYES

Local storm report, May 17, 7:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
732 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

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

0610 PM    BROKEN ARROW              OK   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/17/95   TULSA

Special weather statement, May 17, 8:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

OKZ054>076-180145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
759 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

...STRONG STORMS MOVING INTO PITTSBURG COUNTY...

...TORNADO WATCH FOR PARTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA UNTIL 10 PM...

AT 758 PM...RADAR IN TULSA INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG STORMS MOVING
INTO PITTSBURG COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE NEAR BLANCO AND PITTSBURG AND
WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH
MAY ACCOMPANY THIS STORM AS IT MOVES TOWARD HAILEYVILLE.

THERE WAS ALSO AN ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS EXTREME
NORTHERN OSAGE COUNTY. AT 758 PM...RADAR INDICATED THAT THIS STORM WAS
8 MILES NORTH OF FORAKER. PEA SIZE HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THIS STOJRM AS IT
MOVES EAST AT 35 MPH TOWARD HULAH LAKE.

STORM WARNINGS MAY BE REQUIRED IN THESE AREAS IF THE STORMS INTENSIFY.

Local storm report, May 17, 8:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
832 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

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

0830 PM    WILBURTON                 OK   60 MPH WINDS.
05/17/95   LATIMER

Local storm report, May 17, 8:46 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
845 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

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

0815 PM    HAILEYVILLE               OK   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/17/95   PITTSBURG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	42 min
May 17, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	46 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.