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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 24, 1995Carroll County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1995, 9:11 PM CDT for Carroll County, Arkansas. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 1995, 9:11 PM CDT (02:11 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 1995, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Carroll County, AR

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 220 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 525 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 185 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 250212
SVRTUL
ARC015-250245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
911 PM CDT WED MAY 24 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
 
   ...NORTHERN CARROLL COUNTY
 
AT 911 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
OVER EUREKA SPRINGS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE TOWN OF
GRANDVIEW IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
 
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS 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.
 
KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEA@THER 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 24, 9:01 PM CDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 9:01 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
900 PM CDT WED MAY 24 1995

HV HAD JUST ENOUGH STRMS THIS EVE TO KEEP IT BUSY. SO HV NOT HAD
MUCH CHC TO LOOK AT INCOMING DATA. RW/TRW CONT TO MV ACRS XTRM
ERN OK CNTYS AS WELL AS AR CNTYS. FNT CONTS TO SLOWLY MV SWD ACRS
FA. 00Z SNDGS SHOW PLENTY OF MOISTURE REMAINING ACRS SRN PLAINS.
H85 DW PTS ARE STILL 10+ C W/SLY FLOW AT THAT LVL. IF LO LVL FLOW
STRENGTHENS LATER TNGT AS PREV THOUGHT THEN CANNOT DISCOUNT THE
POSSIBILITY OF REDEVELOPMENT OF RW/TRW ACRS FA LATE TNGT. THUS WL
KEEP CHC POPS GOING. WL INCRS POPS IN AREAS WHERE RW/TRW ARE STILL
OCCURRING. TEMPS LOOK IN LINE AND WL JUST MAKE SOME ADJS BASE D ON
LATEST FNTL POSITION.

07

.TUL...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 24, 6:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
625 PM CDT WED MAY 24 1995

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

555 PM     SPIRO                     OK   0.75 INCH HAIL.
05/24/95   LEFLORE

Local storm report, May 24, 7:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
715 PM CDT WED MAY 24 1995

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

635 PM     COMMERCE
     OK   0.75 INCH HAIL.
05/23/95   OTTAWA

Local storm report, May 24, 7:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
717 PM CDT WED MAY 24 1995

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

655 PM     JENNY LIND            (    AR   0.75 INCH HAIL.
05/24/95   SEBASTIAN

Special weather statement, May 24, 9:10 PM CDT, 1 minute before

OKZ073-074-075-076-ARZ029-250315-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
909 PM CDT WED MAY 24 1995

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR LE FLORE COUNTY
OKLAHOMA AND 8SEBASTIAN COUNTY ARKANSAS UNTIL 10 PM.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PITTSBURG...HASKELL
AND LATIMER COUNTIES. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED EAST OF
THESE COUNTIES.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.