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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 376, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 26, 1995Madison County, Washington County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1995, 1:14 AM CDT for Madison County, Washington County, Arkansas. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 26, 1995, 1:14 AM CDT (06:14 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 1995, 1:47 AM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Madison County, AR, Washington County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 2725 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1374 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 260616 RRA
SVRTUL
ARC087-143-OKC077-260715-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
114 AM CDT WED JUL 26 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
 
   ...SOUTHWESTERN MADISON COUNTY...EASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY
 
 
IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...LATIMER COUNTY
 
AT 112 AM A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST EAST OF
FAYETTEVILLE TO FORT SMITH TO JUST NORTH OF MCALESTER. THE STORMS WERE
MOVING EAST AND SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. WINSLOW...ST.PAUL...WILBURTON AND
SURROUNDING LOCATIONS ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS.
 
DAMAGING WINDS WITH GUSTS UP TO 65 MPH WILL OCCUR WITH THIS LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS.  IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SEEK SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY IN THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING OR HOME.  STAY
AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS A|ND WINDOWS.  IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME
YOU SHOULD MOVE TO A MORE SUBSTANTIAL STRUCTURE IF ONE IS NEARBY.
 
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 Jul 25, 8:36 PM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 8:36 PM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
835 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 1995

TRW CONT TO DVLP ACRS KS/MO...SPRDG SE TWRD FCST AREA.  STILL
ANTICIPATE AN ORGANIZED CNVCTV SYS FROM TRW OVR KS...MOVG SE OVR
CTRL/ERN OK DURG NGT.  WL CONT WITH TRW LKLY /60 POPS/ NE OK AND NW
AR...40 TO 50 POPS ECTRL OK AND FSM AREA...AND JUST 20 OR 30 POPS
XTRM SE OK.  WL CONT MENT OF SVR PSBL NRN HALF OF FCST AREA.
REMAINDR OF FCST OKAY...WITH ONLY MINOR ADJSTMNTS XPCTD.

.TUL...NONE.

PW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	53 min
Jul 25, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison, Washington	66 min
Jul 25, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll	66 min
Jul 25, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	47 min
Jul 26, 12:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	65 min
Jul 26, 12:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	67 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1995 Every 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.