Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 327, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1995, 9:40 PM CDT for Sebastian County, Arkansas. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1995, 9:40 PM CDT (02:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1995, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sebastian County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 2328 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1132 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 12.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 050308 RRA SVRTUL ARC131-050330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED...RETRANSMITTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 940 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS ...SEBASTIAN COUNTY AT 940 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CENTERED 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HACKETT MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. HACKETT AND GREENWOOD ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL PASS TO THE SOUTH OF THE FORT SMITH AREA. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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 Jul 4, 9:11 PM CDT, 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 9:11 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 900 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 LN OF SVR STMS CONTS THIS EVNG FRM NWRN AR INTO ERN OK. LN HS ACCELERATED OUT OVR NRN PART OF FA THRU THE EVNG...WHILE DRAGGING SLOWLY EWRD FURTHER SOUTH. MESONET DATA SHOWS MAIN SFC TROF OVR CNTL PART OF STATE HAS EDGED INTO NWRNMOST FA COUNTIES. WL MAKE A FEW CHGS FOR TNGT AS LN WL CONT TO PROGRESS EWRD WHILE REMAINING SVR ACRS HREMAINDER OF AREA. WL ALSO KEEP SOME LO POPS OVR MOST OF THE AREA BHND THE LN AS SFC TROF WL BE SLOW TO MOV ACRS. ...04... .TUL...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 4:31 PM CDT, 5 hours 9 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-029-OKZ054>077-051200- EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 430 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1993 ...UPDATE FOR SHORT TERM TRENDS... A THUNDERSTORM HAS RAPIDLY BECOME SEVERE OVER SOUTHEAST CREEK COUNTY BETWEEN BRISTOW AND SLICK. THE STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH AND WILL AFFECT PARTS OF SOUTHERN TULSA COUNTY AND POSSIBLY NORTHERN OKMULGEE COUNTY BETWEEN 5 AND 630 PM. WITH EXTREME INSTABILITY AND A MODERATELY FAVORABLE WIND PROFILE THIS STORM MAY BECOME A SUPERCELL WITH THE THREAT OF EXTREMELY LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORNADOES. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES AND SPOTTER GROUPS IN CREEK...TULSA AND OKMUfLGEE COUNTIES SHOULD IMMEDIATELY DEPLOY SPOTTERS ON THIS STORM. PERSONS IN EASTERN CREEK...SOUTHERN TULSA AND NORTHER OKMULGEE COUNTY SHOULD BE READY TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY AND MONITOR THE SITUATION CLOSELY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Carroll, Madison | 67 min |
| Jul 4, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 67 min |
| Jul 4, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 59 min |
| Jul 4, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll | 42 min |
| Jul 4, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 66 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.