Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 1995, 12:21 AM CDT for Benton County, Carroll County, Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 18, 1995, 12:21 AM CDT (05:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 1995, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Madison County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 750 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 425 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 569 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 180523 SVRTUL ARC007-015-033-087-180615- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1221 AM CDT TUE APR 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS ...BENTON COUNTY...CARROLL COUNTY...CRAWFORD COUNTY ...MADISON COUNTY AT 1220 AM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS. STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. 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. 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 Apr 17, 9:04 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 9:04 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 900 PM CDT MON APR 17 1995 00Z RAOBS CONT TO INDCT A VERY UNSTABLE AMS OVR EOK/NWAR THIS EVE JUST WAITING FOR THE LFTG MECH TO ARRIVE. ACTVTY STARTING TO BCM MORE ORGANIZED WEST OF EOK AND XPCT A SQLN TO DVLP AND SWEEP THRU AREA OVRNGT. TIMING HAS BEEN A BIT SLOER THAN XPCTD...SO WL NOT TRY TO BE AS FINE ON TSTMS ENDING BY A CERTAIN TIME. STILL XCPT SQLN T:O BE OUT OF FA BFR DABRK THO. AM A BIT WORRIED ABT PSBL FL FLDG AS FF GUIDNC RATHER LO. HWVR..BLV SQLN WL MOV FAST ENUF TO AVOID A PROLONGED PD OF HVY RAINFALL. ..11.. .TUL...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 17, 10:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1051 PM CDT MON APR 17 1995
...REPORTS FROM MONDAY APRIL 17 1995...
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1036 PM SAPULPA OK WIND GUST TO 67 MPH
04/17/95 CREEK
952 PM WELEETKA OK LARGE LIMBS BLOWN DOWN
04/17/95 OKFUSKEE
1025 PM HITCHITA OK 0.88 INCH HAIL
04/17/95 MCINTOSH
1035 PM STIDHAM OK WIND GUST TO 60 MPH
04/17/95 MCINTOSH
1040 PM 4 WEST SAND SPRINGS OK LARGE TREE BLOWN DOWN
04/17/95 TULSALocal storm report, Apr 17, 11:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1118 PM CDT MON APR 17 1995
...REPORTS FROM MONDAY APRIL 17 1995...
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCA0TION....
1112 PM NW SIDE OF MUSKOGEE OK WIND GUSTS TO 80 MPH
04/17/95 MUSKOGEELocal storm report, Apr 17, 11:32 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1132 PM CDT MON APR 17 1995
...REPORTS FROM MONDAY APRIL 17 1995...
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCARTION....
1115 PM 3 MIS WEST OF OKAY OK WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH
04/17/95 WAGONERLocal storm report, Apr 18, 12:14 AM CDT, 7 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1213 AM CDT TUE APR 18 1995
...REPORTS FROM MONDAY APRIL 17 1995...
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1115 PM NEAR OKAY OK OHP REPORTED POSSIBLE
04/17/95 WAGONER TORNADO TOUCHDOWN NR OKAY.
NUMEROUS POWER POLES
DOWNED; SOME HOMES DAMAGEDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Washington | 40 min |
| Apr 17, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford | 40 min |
| Apr 17, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 43 min |
| Apr 18, 12:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Washington | 32 min |
| Apr 18, 12:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford | 54 min |
| Apr 18, 12:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Benton | 34 min |
| Apr 18, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 30 min |
Nearby
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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.