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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 335, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 23, 1995Sebastian County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1995, 1:49 PM CDT for Sebastian County, Arkansas. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 23, 1995, 1:49 PM CDT (18:49 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 1995, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Sebastian County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 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.

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: 1999 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1085 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 197 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 191 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 231849 RRA
SVRTUL
ARC131-231915-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
149 PM CDT SUN JUL 23 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS
 
   ...EASTERN SEBASTIAN COUNTY
 
AT 147 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES EAST OF
GREENWOOD. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES 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 TELEpPHONE
OR HAND HELD ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES...UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY.
MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR WATER ON ROADWAYS AND NEVER
DRIVE ONTO A FLOODED ROAD.

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 23, 10:11 AM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 10:11 AM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1005 AM CDT SUN JUL 23 1995

12Z NORMAN SNDG SHOWS LACK OF LLVL MOSITURE BELOW 600 MB...
WITH RATHER UNIMPRESSIVE POSITIVE AREA ONCE DAYTIME HTG BREAKS
INVERSION.  LLVL MOISTURE IMPROVES OVR ERN OK/NW AR HOWEVER WITH
SFC DWPTS IN THE L/M 70S...H85 DWPTS ABV 10C AND K INDEX ABT 36-40.
WATER VAPOR SHOWS STG SHRTWV MOVG INTO WRN CO ATTM...ALTHO NEW ETA
MDL IS QUITE A BIT SLOWER MOVG THIS FEATURE INTO FA THAN PREVIOUS
RUN.  AGREE WITH SELS DOWNGRADE FM MDT RISK TO SLGT RISK DUE TO
UNCERTAINTY IN TIMING OF BEST MID LVL COOLING/LARGE SCALE LIFT
ASSOCD WITH H5 SHRTWV.  ACCORDINGLY...WL DROP MENTION OF SVR OVR
NRN ZNS FOR THIS AFTN...BUT WL KP SVR IN FOR TONIGHT UNTIL I HAVE
MORE TIME TO EXAMINE GRIDDED DATA.  WL ISSUE UPDATED TSTRM OUTLOOK
ARND 1-2 PM TO HIGHLIGHT SVR POTENTIAL.

OTHERWISE...FCST HIGH TEMPS LOOK GD WITH MOST LOCATIONS ALREADY
WARMING INTO THE MID 80S.

.TUL...NONE.

HODGES

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 23, 8:58 AM CDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
858 AM CDT SUN JUL 23 1995

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

0305 AM    TULSA                     OK      WIND GUST TO 60 MPH
07/22/95   TULSA

Local storm report, Jul 23, 9:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
858 AM CDT SUN JUL 23 1995

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

0305 AM    TULSA                     OK      WIND GUST TO 60 MPH
07/22/95   TULSA

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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.