Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 244, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1995, 6:51 PM CDT for Washington County, Arkansas. It was in force for 54 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1995, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1995, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:20 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Nr Brentwood, AR |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 300 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
- 3219 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 628 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 082353 RRA SVRTUL ARC143-090045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 651 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS ...WASHINGTON COUNTY AT 650 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CENTERED 2 MILES SOUTH OF PRAIRIE GROVE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. WEST FORK IS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. 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 Jun 8, 3:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 3:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...ADD FFA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 315 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995 HAVE GOTTEN QUIT A BIT BEHIND WITH STRONG TO SVR STORM IN NRN ZNS AND OB MOVING WELL INTO NE OK...SO THIS WILL BE BRIEF. CLUSTER OF STORMS SEEMS TO BE BEING SUPPORTED BY VORT MAX MOVING INTO NE OK. GOES-8 WV IMAGRY SHOWS SUBSNC AREA BEHIND DISTURBANCE MOVING THRU N TX INTO SE OK. PCP SHUD CONT TO SPREAD E AND SE INTO ARK WITH ADDITIONAL DVLPMENT PSBL ON OB THIS EVE IN EC/SE OK WHERE TMPS HAVE GOTTEN INTO MID/UP 80S. OTR DVLPMENT LIKELY OVR W OK NEAR FNT...MAY MOVE E BACK INTO NE OK AFT MIDNIGHT. WILL KEEP HIGHEST POPS IN NRN ZNS AND TAPPER SOUTHWARD. APPEARS DYNAMICS WILL ALL LIFT WELL N OF FA FRI BUT WITH ETA CAPES > 4000 AND CINH NOT OVERWHELMING WILL KEEP SLGT CHC POPS OVR FA FRI. ETA/AVN AGREE WITH LAST NIGHTS MRF IN BRINGING FNT INTO FA ON SAT. THIS MORNS NGM KEEPS FNT WELL N BUT DRAGS DRYLN INTO CENT OK. SO NGM MOS TMPS/POPS IN LATER PERIODS ARE MUCH DIF THAN FAN MOS. WILL GO ALONG WITH ETA/AVN/MRF AND NMC MAN PROGS AND BRING FNT INTO NE OK SAT MORN. SHUD BE WIDESPREAD PCP AHEAD OF FNT INTO NE OK FRI NIGHT AND THEN MOVE THRU FA SAT. THOUGHT ABOUT FFA FOR NRN TIER OF ZNS WHERE TRW MAY RETRAK LATER TONIGHT. WILL TRY TO COORD WITH OUN/TOP ON THIS AND REISSUE AFD IF ONE IS DECIDED. ADDED FFA. /13 TUL 068/088 069/082 060 3244 FSM 071/091 071/085 066 2124 MLC 073/091 073/085 063 2124 BVO 064/088 067/082 XXX 5253 FYV 069/088 070/083 XXX 4224 IDB 071/092 072/089 XXX 1113 BYV 065/086 067/084 XXX 4234 .TUL...FFA TONIGHT ZNS 54>58.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 4:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
OKZ054>069-082115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 401 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA... AT 355 PM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MUCH OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM OKMULGEE TO SILOAM SPRINGS ARKANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER MAYES COUNTY...PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST ARKANSAS UNTIL 9 PM.
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 4:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
OKZ054>069-082115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 401 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA... AT 355 PM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MUCH OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM OKMULGEE TO SILOAM SPRINGS ARKANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER MAYES COUNTY...PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST ARKANSAS UNTIL 9 PM.
Local storm report, Jun 8, 4:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
452 PM CDT THU JUN 08 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
145 PM DEWEY OK 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/08/95 WASHINGTON CO
230 PM 6-8 MI EAST OF OTTAWA OK SEVERAL TREES BLOWN DOWN
06/08/95 OTTAWA CO
325 PM BLUE JACKET/WELCH AREA OK POWER LINES AND SEVERAL
06/08/95 CRAIG CO TREES BLOWN DOWN
.Local storm report, Jun 8, 4:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
452 PM CDT THU JUN 08 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
145 PM DEWEY OK 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/08/95 WASHINGTON CO
230 PM 6-8 MI EAST OF OTTAWA OK SEVERAL TREES BLOWN DOWN
06/08/95 OTTAWA CO
325 PM BLUE JACKET/WELCH AREA OK POWER LINES AND SEVERAL
06/08/95 CRAIG CO TREES BLOWN DOWN
.Special weather statement, Jun 8, 5:53 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
OKZ054>061-064-082330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 553 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 581 CANCELLED NORTHWEST OF I-44 IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA... AS THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTH AND EAST...THE AIR OVER NORTHWEST PORTIONS OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 581 HAS BECOME COOLER AND MUCH MORE STABLE. THEREFORE...THE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THOSE AREAS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA GENERALLY NORTHWEST OF INTERSTATE 44. COUNTIES CANCELLED FROM THE WATCH INCLUDE...OSAGE...PAWNEE... WASHINGTON...NOWATA...CRAIG...AND OTTAWA. SOUTHEAST PORTIONS OF CREEK...TULSA...AND ROGERS COUNTIES WILL CONTINUE IN THE WATCH AREA ...ALTHOUGH NORTHWEST PORTIONS OF THOSE COUNTIES ARE NOT LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE ANY SEVERE WEATHER.
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 5:56 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
OKZ054>061-064-082330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 553 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 581 CANCELLED NORTHWEST OF I-44 IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA... AS THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTH AND EAST...THE AIR OVER NORTHWEST PORTIONS OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 581 HAS BECOME COOLER AND MUCH MORE STABLE. THEREFORE...THE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THOSE AREAS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA GENERALLY NORTHWEST OF INTERSTATE 44. COUNTIES CANCELLED FROM THE WATCH INCLUDE...OSAGE...PAWNEE... WASHINGTON...NOWATA...CRAIG...AND OTTAWA. SOUTHEAST PORTIONS OF CREEK...TULSA...AND ROGERS COUNTIES WILL CONTINUE IN THE WATCH AREA ...ALTHOUGH NORTHWEST PORpTIONS OF THOSE COUNTIES ARE NOT LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE ANY SEVERE WEATHER.
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.