Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 163, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1995, 10:09 PM CDT for Carroll County, Arkansas. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1995, 10:09 PM CDT (03:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1995, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 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 03:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 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.
- 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
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 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 | Benton | 24 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.