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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 13, 1995, 8:59 PM CDT for Benton County, Arkansas. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 1995, 8:59 PM CDT (01:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 1995, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Benton County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 2575 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1417 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 140200 TORTUL ARC007-140245- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 859 PM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS ...BENTON COUNTY AT 855 PM RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR LOWELL. THIS IS A NEW TORNADIC CIRCULATION. THE ORIGINAL TORNADIC CIRCULATION NORTHEAST OF ROGERS HAS WEAKENED. A LARGE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CONTINUES TO COVER MUCH OF BENTON COUNTY. HAIL TO GOLFBALL SIZE OR LARGER REMAINS LIKELY AND ADDITIONAL TORNADIC CIRCULATIONS MAY DEVELOP WITHIN THIS STORM. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN BENTON COUNTY SHOULD REMAIN IN THEIR STORM SHELTERS. 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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at May 13, 3:25 PM CDT, 5 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 3:25 PM CDT, 5 hours 34 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 300 PM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995 LN OF CU DVLPNG ALONG DRYLN MAY POP INTO A TRW OR TWO BEFORE SUNSET. MESONET OBS SHOW MOIST CONVERGENCE STILL AROUND 2.5 G/KG/HR JUST SOUTHWEST OF PITTSBURG COUNTY. WILL KEEP MENTION OF ISOLATED TRW PSBL UNTIL SUNSET IN ERN ZNS. DRY AIR HAS MADE BEST ADVANCES IN NE OK WITH MESONET STNS IN AREAS NW OF TUL SHOWING DWPTS IN UPPER 40S TO LOWER 50S. LUKS LIKE THIS AIR WILL CONT TO MOVE E WITH MUCH LESS DRYING IN SE OK. WEST WINDS SHUD DIMINISH THIS EVE AND MODELS BACK WINDS OVERNIGHT AHEAD OF COOL FRNT THAT WILL APPROCH OK/KS BORDER EARLY SUN MORN. SOME SHALLOW LLVL MOIST MAY MAKE A MOVE BACK NORTH LATE TONIGHT BUT WITH SUNSHINE EARLY SUNDAY...DRY AIR FROM ABV WILL QUICKLY MIX OUT LLVLS AND MAKE TRW DVLPMNT UNLIKELY OVR MOST OF FA. EXCEPTION MAY BE IN ARK ZNS AND ZN 77...BUT CHCS WILL BE LESS THAN 10% SO WILL NOT INCLUDE IN ZNS. MODELS TRY TO BRING ANOTHER WK FNT THRU FA SUN NIGHT...BUT WITH UPPER RDG CONT TO BUILD INTO PLAINS...ANY BNDRY SHUD BE VRY SHALLOW AND COOLING WILL BE VRY MINIMAL. SHALLOW SFC BNDRY MAY REMAIN OVR N TX MONDAY THEN LFT NORTH MONDAY NIGHT AS NEXT L/W TROF MOVES INTO WRN STATES. SOME 80 DEG DWPTS SHOWING UP ALONG GULF COAST SO THIS SYS SHUD HAVE SUMMERTIME-LIKE MOISTURE TO WORK WITH WHEN IT MOVES INTO THE PLAINS BY MID WEEK. WILL FAVOR SLGTLY COOLER THAN MOS MINS IN THE NORTH AND WARMER THAN MOS MINS IN THE SOUTH AND GO WITH PERSISTENCE FOR MAXES THE NEXT FEW DAYS. TODAY MOST PLACES SAW AT LEAST UPPER 80S WITH SOME LOWER 90S. CHCS FOR PCP WILL BE CLOSE TO NIL UNTIL PERHAPS MONDAY NIGHT OR TUE AT THE EARLIEST. /13 TUL 06t2/089 059/090 065 -000 FSM 066/092 058/092 062 1-00 MLC 065/092 058/092 066 -000 BVO 058/088 057/088 XXX -000 FYV 062/089 057/089 XXX 1-00 IDB 065/093 061/093 XXX 1-00 4M1 065/091 060/090 XXX 1-00 .TUL...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 48 min |
| May 13, 7:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Benton | 53 min |
| May 13, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Benton | 47 min |
| May 13, 9:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Benton | 3 hr |
| May 13, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Carroll, Madison | 51 min |
| May 13, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 46 min |
| May 13, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 48 min |
| May 13, 9:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Benton, Washington | 53 min |
| May 13, 10:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Madison | 46 min |
| May 13, 10:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Madison, Washington | 49 min |
| May 13, 11:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Madison, Washington | 3 hr |
| May 13, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 45 min |
| May 13, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison | 52 min |
| May 14, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Washington | 45 min |
| May 14, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison | 35 min |
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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.