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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 262, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 2, 1996Benton County, Arkansas; Delaware County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1996, 11:22 PM CDT for Benton County, Arkansas; Delaware County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 53 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: Jun 2, 1996, 11:22 PM CDT (04:22 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1996, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Benton County, AR, Delaware County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 2, 11:45 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Jay, OK
Jun 2, 11:58 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Gravette, 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 88 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: 528 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1784 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 030423
SVRTUL
ARC007-OKC041-030515-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1122 PM CDT SUN JUN 2 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
 
   ...WESTERN BENTON COUNTY
 
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...EASTERN DELAWARE COUNTY
 
AT 1122 PM...RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF JAY
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. GENTRY AND CHEROKEE CITY ARE IN
THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
 
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED
IN THE WARNED AREA.
 
DURING THE STORM MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM LIGHTNING DO NOT USE THE TELEPHONE
OR HAND HELD ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES...UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY.
MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR WATER ON ROADWAYS AND NEVER
DRIVE ONTO A FLOODED ROAD.
 
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 Jun 2, 8:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 8:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
850 PM CDT SUN JUN 2 1996

SEVERE TSTM IN NEWTON COUNTY MISSOURI CONTINUES TO MAINTAIN ITS
STRENGTH AND IS TAKING AIM ON NW AR IN THE EUREKA SPRINGS AREA. WILL
NEED TO KEEP A MENTION OF SCATTERED TSTMS IN PARTS OF NW AR UNTIL
AROUND MIDNIGHT AS A RESULT. OTHERWISE SKIES SHOULD BE MOSTLY CLEAR
OVERNIGHT WITH PATCHY AREAS OF FOG FORMING IN THE SRN AREAS AS
INDICATED IN THE CURRENT FCST. WILL ADJUST WINDS TO LIGHT AND VARIABLE
FOR TONIGHT.

REMAINDER OF FCST LOOKS ON TRACK SO NO OTHER CHANGES PLANNED ATTM.

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

PLATE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll	54 min
Jun 3, 3:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford	39 min
Jun 3, 12:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	43 min
Jun 3, 12:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	49 min
Jun 3, 1:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Wagoner	47 min
Jun 3, 1:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	42 min
Jun 3, 2:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Wagoner	30 min
Jun 3, 2:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Okmulgee	44 min
Jun 3, 3:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Muskogee	41 min
Jun 3, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1996 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.