Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1995, 12:54 AM CDT for Carroll County, Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 1995, 12:54 AM CDT (05:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1995, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carroll County, AR, Madison County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 794 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1309 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 240556 SVRTUL ARC015-087-240700- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1254 AM CDT WED MAY 24 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS ...CARROLL COUNTY...MADISON COUNTY AT 1252 AM...RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 12 MILES WEST OF HUNTSVILLE TO 8 MILES WEST DELANEY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. DAMAGING WINDS WITH GUSTS UP TO 65 MPH WILL OCCUR WITH THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING OR HOME. STAY AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME YOU SHOULD MOVE TO A MORE SUBSTANTIAL STRUCTURE IF ONE IS NEARBY.
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 23, 9:15 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 23, 9:15 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 915 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1995 LARGE COMPLEX OF SHOWERS AND STORMS HEADING NE INTO FA ATTM WITH STG/SVR STORM MVG NE TWD OKFUSKEE COUNTY. COMPLEX XTDG SW INTO NC TX AND IS DVLG/MOVG NE INTO VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS ACROSS ERN OK...WITH DWPTS NOW AROUND 70 DEGREES AND CAPES IN EXCESS OF 2000 J/KG. HELICITIES NOT VERY IMPRESSIVE...SO HI WND/HAIL EVENT APPEARS MORE LIKELY WITH THIS RND OF STORMS. NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT XTNDS FROM NR PNC SW INTO SW OK TO LO OVR SE NM. XPCT LTL IF ANY SWD MOVEMENT TO THIS FRONT AS STORMS HV NOT DVLP TO THE NORTH OF THE BNDRY. SO STORMS WL LIKELY CONT TO DVLP AND FIRE ALONG AND AHEAD OF FRONT THRU REMAINDER OF NIGHT AS VIGOROUS UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM...NOW OVR NE NM HEADS NE INTO AREA. HV INCREASED POPS...PARTICULARY ACROSS SW ZONES AS CONVECTION HEADS NE INTO THAT REGION. FFA MAY BE REQUIRED LTR TONIGHT AS STORMS CONT TO SPREAD NE ACROSS AREA. /16 .TUL...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH TILL 2 AM CDT ZONES 73>75.
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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.