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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 18, 1995Washington County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Apr 18, 1995, 12:13 AM CDT for Washington County, Arkansas. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 18, 1995, 12:13 AM CDT (05:13 UTC)
Expired: Apr 18, 1995, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Washington County, AR

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 18, 12:13 AM CDT	Tornado F0	Evansville, AR

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 180514
TORTUL
ARC143-180545-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1213 AM CDT TUE APR 18 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
 
   ...WASHINGTON COUNTY
 
AT 1211 AM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTH
OF LINCOLN. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
PRAIRIE GROVE IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE.
OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.
STAY AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND
MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET IN A GROUND DEPRESSION.
 
KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.

The 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, 12:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Madison	54 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.