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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 27, 1995Benton County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1995, 10:09 PM CDT for Benton County, Arkansas. It was in force for 24 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 1995, 10:09 PM CDT (03:09 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 1995, 10:33 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Benton County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 74 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: 1342 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 829 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 263 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 333 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.3
Supercell composite: 12.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 280311
SVRTUL
ARC007-015-280400-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1009 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
 
   ...EASTERN BENTON COUNTY...NORTHERN CARROLL COUNTY
 
AT 1005 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
FROM NEAR ROGERS TO NEAR LOWELL. THE STORMS
WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE OVER
MOST OF BEAVER LAKE AND INTO THE EUREKA SPRINGS AREA.
PEOPLE ON THE LAKE SHOULD GET TO SHELTER.
 
 
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 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 27, 9:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 9:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
905 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995

WILL REMOVE POPS FROM ZNS XCPT WHERE 88D SHOWS ISOLD RW/TRW.
XPCT PCPN TO DIMINISH NBXT FEW HRS.  WILL GO WITH MSTLY CLEAR FOR
TNGT...THO SOME HI CLDS FROM SWRN U.S. SYS CUD MOVE ACRS AREA
LATE.  ONLY MINOR ADJSTMNTS XPCTD TO TEMPS AND WNDS FOR TNGT IN
SOME ZNS ATTM.

PW

.TUL...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 27, 4:53 PM CDT, 5 hours 16 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
453 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995

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

430 PM     APPROX. 3 MILES NW OF KETCHUM   OK   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/95          CRAIG                       DIME SIZE HAIL COVERING THE
                                              GROUND REPORTED AT SHERIFF
                                              DEPUTY'S RESIDENCE.

Local storm report, May 27, 5:37 PM CDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
535 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995

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

500 PM            FAIRLAND              OK   WIND DAMAGE
05/27/95          OTTAWA                     WINDS OF AT LEAST 60 MPH
                                             ESTIMATED BY FAIRLAND P.D.
                                             TREE LIMBS AND 1 SMALL
                                             TREE DOWN.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll	51 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.