Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 415, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 30, 1995, 8:38 PM CDT for Crawford County, Arkansas. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 30, 1995, 8:38 PM CDT (01:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 30, 1995, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crawford County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 446 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1358 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 010138 RRA SVRTUL ARC033-010230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 838 PM CDT SAT SEP 30 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS ...CRAWFORD COUNTY AT 836 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SMALL LINE OF STORMS FROM NEAR NATURAL DAM TO JUST SOUTHWEST OF CEDARVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. NATURAL DAM AND CEDARVILLE ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LlATEST 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 Sep 30, 3:55 PM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 30, 3:55 PM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 345 AM CDT SAT SEP 30 1995 THE COLD FRONT MOVING INTO ERN OK NOW WILL MAKE IT THRU NW AR AND MOST OF ERN OK DURING THE EVENING AND NIGHT...AND TO MCCURTAIN COUNTY BY MORNING. WINDS ARE SHIFTING TO SW AHEAD OF THE FRONT AND WEAKENING ANY CONVERGENCE. STILL...A LINE OF SHOWERS/TSHWRS HAS DEVELOPED FROM CREEK TO NOWATA COUNTY. XPC THIS LINE TO BE ALL THE PCPN ASSOCD WITH THE FRONT. WILL TRY TO TIME THE LINE TO MAKE THE ZONE FORECASTS FOR TONIGHT. GOOD MOISTURE IS STREAMING NEWD AHEAD OF THE FRONT...AND IS SHOWN IN MSTR CONVERGENCE. SO...MOS POPS WILL BE TOO LOW AND WILL ADJUST UP...EXPECTING A BROKEN LINE RW/TRW POSSIBLY DMSHG AFT SUNSET. MOS TEMPS LOOK REASONABLE AND WILL STAY CLOSE TO THEM WITH VERY LITTLE ADJUSTMENT. PRELIM NMBRS TUL UB 058/079 053/080 058 021000 FSM UB 062/083 055/081 060 025-00 MLC UB 060/080 056/082 060 024-0-* BVO UB 054/079 051/079 XXX 02-000 IDB BB 064/084 061/081 XXX 02420- FYV UB 058/078 050/077 XXX 025000 BYV UB 058/078 048/077 XXX 025000 /02 .TUL...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 30, 6:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
OKZ068-010015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 636 PM CDT SAT SEP 30 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS CHEROKEE COUNTY... AT 635 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SMALL LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER FAR WESTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY...WEST OF HULBERT... MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL TRACK ACROSS CHEROKEE COUNTY...INCLUDING THE TAHLEQUAH AREA...THROUGH 730 PM. RADAR INDICATES THAT HEAVY RAIN AND 30 TO 50 MPH WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. IF FURTHER INTENSIFICATION OCCURS...A WARNING MAY BE NEEDED.
Special weather statement, Sep 30, 6:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
OKZ068-010015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 636 PM CDT SAT SEP 30 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS CHEROKEE COUNTY... AT 635 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SMALL LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER FAR WESTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY...WEST OF HULBERT... MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL TRACK ACROSS CHEROKEE COUNTY...INCLUDING THE TAHLEQUAH AREA...THROUGH 730 PM. RADAR INDICATES THAT HEAVY RAIN AND 30 TO 50 MPH WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. IF FURTHER INTENSIFICATION OCCURS...A WARNING MAY BE NEEDED.
Special weather statement, Sep 30, 8:15 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
ARZ010-019-010145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 816 PM CDT SAT SEP 30 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE FAYETTEVILLE AREA... AT 814 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SMALL LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING THE FAYETTEVILLE AND SPRINGDALE AREAS IN WASHINGTON COUNTY ARKANSAS. THE LINE WILL MOVE ACROSS THESE AREAS THROUGH 9 PM. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ENTERING SOUTHWESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY AND NORTHWESTERN CRAWFORD COUNTY. RADAR INDICATES THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG WINDS WITH THESE STORMS... PROBABLY IN THE 30 TO 50 MPH RANGE. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD SEEK SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED.
Special weather statement, Sep 30, 8:16 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
ARZ010-019-010145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 816 PM CDT SAT SEP 30 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE FAYETTEVILLE AREA... AT 814 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SMALL LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING THE FAYETTEVILLE AND SPRINGDALE AREAS IN WASHINGTON COUNTY ARKANSAS. THE LINE WILL MOVE ACROSS THESE AREAS THROUGH 9 PM. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ENTERING SOUTHWESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY AND NORTHWESTERN CRAWFORD COUNTY. RADAR INDICATES THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG WINDS WITH THESE STORMS... PROBABLY IN THE 30 TO 50 MPH RANGE. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD SEEK SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED.
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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.