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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 250, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 27, 1996Madison County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1996, 3:35 AM CDT for Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 40 min. 2 reports 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: May 27, 1996, 3:35 AM CDT (08:35 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 1996, 4:15 AM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Madison County, AR

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 27, 4:00 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	St Paul, AR
May 27, 4:20 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Huntsville, 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 99 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: 1746 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1110 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 142 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 10.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 May 26, 9:11 PM CDT, 6 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 9:11 PM CDT, 6 hours 24 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
900 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996

STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS AFFECTING THE AREA AND AFOS AND 88D
PROBLEMS NOT HELPING AT ALL.  NO UPPER AIR OR SFC MAPS WERE
AVAILABLE TO ANALYZE TONIGHT. NO PROFILERS EITHER. RADAR AND
SATELLITE TRENDS OVER THE LAST FEW HOURS SHOWS THAT MOST OF THE
STORMS WILL TRACK OVER THE NRN HALF OF THE AREA THROUGH THE EVENING
BUT WILL DEVELOP S AFTER AROUND MIDNIGHT. STORMS THAT TRIED TO
DEVELOP FURTHER SOUTH OVER NTX DISSIPATED EARLIER BUT NEW STORMS
NOW GOING UP ALONG A LINE FROM OKC TO SPS. 00Z MAPS AND MESONET
ANALYSES SHOW THE DRY LINE STILL OVER WRN OK...SO REDEVELOPMENT OUT
WEST A GOOD POSSIBILITY THRU THE NIGHT. MESONET DEWPOINTS 70-75 AND
MAPS LI REMAINS AROUND -6 OVER ALL OF ERN OK. WILL KEEP SVR GOING
IN ALL ZONES. RAINFALL AMOUNTS NOT VERY HIGH WITH STORMS MOVING AT
40+ MPH BUT STORMS OF LATE HAVE BEEN REDEVELOPING/MOVINGr OVER THE
SAME AREAS. WILL NOT ISSUE FFW AT THIS TIME AS FF GUIDANCE IS
FAIRLY HIGH AND STORMS SHOULD CONTINUE MOVING QUICKLY...BUT WILL
WATCH CLOSELY. /26

.TUL...
OK...NONE.
AR...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 9:48 PM CDT, 5 hours 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
950 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0750 PM    4 NE TALALA               OK   POSSIBLE TORNADO
05/26/96   ROGERS                         HOUSE DESTROYED.

Special weather statement, May 27, 12:48 AM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before

OKZ054>077-ARZ001-002-010-011-019-029-270800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1240 AM CDT MON MAY 27 1996

WASHINGTON...TULSA...CREEK...OKFUSKEE AND NOWATA COUNTIES
IN OKLAHOMA HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 453.

THE TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR THE REST OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA
GENERALY SOUTH AND EAST OF TULSA AND ALL OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
UNTIL 5AM.

A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH
SLOWLY ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA INTO NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
OVERNIGHT. THE STRONGEST STORMS COULD POSSIBLY PRODUCE
A TORNADO.

LISTEN FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF
T0HREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. BOATERS AND CAMPERS SHOULD
MOVE TO SHELTER UNTIL THESE STORMS PASS.

Special weather statement, May 27, 2:41 AM CDT, 54 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	45 min
May 26, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa, Washington	54 min
May 26, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata	43 min
May 26, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	48 min
May 26, 7:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Nowata, Rogers	31 min
May 26, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	45 min
May 26, 8:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Nowata	39 min
May 26, 8:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Craig	47 min
May 26, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	54 min
May 26, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	28 min
May 26, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Rogers	42 min
May 26, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	30 min
May 26, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa	48 min
May 26, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Rogers	54 min
May 26, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig	52 min
May 26, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	45 min
May 26, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Ottawa	58 min
May 26, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig	49 min
May 26, 11:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Ottawa	43 min
May 26, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	45 min
May 27, 12:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Wagoner	52 min
May 27, 12:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee	44 min
May 27, 1:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Sequoyah	52 min
May 27, 1:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Pittsburg	40 min
May 27, 1:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee	31 min
May 27, 1:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	43 min
May 27, 2:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	60 min
May 27, 4:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.