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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 270, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 3, 1996Crawford County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1996, 3:51 AM CDT for Crawford County, Arkansas. It was in force for 39 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: Jun 3, 1996, 3:51 AM CDT (08:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1996, 4:30 AM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Crawford County, AR

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 3, 4:10 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	Chester, 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 151 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 030852
SVRTUL
ARC033-030930-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
351 AM CDT MON JUN 3 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
 
   ...NORTHERN AND EASTERN CRAWFORD COUNTY
 
AT 350 AM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF
MOUNTAINBURG MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. CHESTER AND MOUNTAINBURG ARE IN
THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKLES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED
IN THE WARNED AREA.

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 3, 3:00 AM CDT, 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 3:00 AM CDT, 51 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
255 AM CDT MON JUN 3 1996

WK S/W COMING DOWN THE NWLY FLO ALOFT HAS BEEN STG ENUF TO TRIGGER
CONVCTN OVR PARTS OF EOK/NWAR ERY THIS MRNG.  WL AGAIN WAIT TIL
FCST ISSUANCE TIME TO DECIDE WHERE TO LV POPS FOR ERY THIS MRNG.
INCRSD HI LVL CLDS SPRDG OVR SERN OK AND NWRN AR SHUD DMNSH CHCS
FOR FOG FORMATION SO WL NOT MENTION IN THIS FCST.  S/W SHUD MOV OUT
ERY THIS MRNG WITH MSTLY SUNNY SKIES XPCTD THIS AFTN.  MAX TEMPS
SHUD BE SIMILAR TO SUN.

LGT WNDS TNGT SHUD KEEP DPR MOISTR SOUTH OF FA.  AM CONCERNED ABT
NWLY FLO ALOFT AS WK S/WS CAN GENERATE NOCTURNAL TSTMS EVEN OUT OF
MID LVL MOISTR.  HWVR..WL NOT INTRODC CHC OF TSTMS FOR TNGT AS DPR
MOISTR LACKING.  SLY LO LVL WNDS RTRNG TUES WITH MOISTR XPCTD TO
DPN SPCLY TO THE WEST.  BYND THIS FCST PD...CHCS FOR TSTMS LUK BTR
FOR TUES NGT AS MDLS INDCT S/W OVR NEB ARND 00Z WED POISED TO MOV
DOWN TO NWLYS.  ETA/NGM SLO IN DPCTG MOISTR RTRN BUT AVN INDCTS HIR
MOISTR IN PLACE TO SUPPORT NGTTIME TSTMS.   /11

PRELIMS
TUL 084/060 083/065 -113
FSM 085/057 084/063 M1-3
MLC 086/059 084/064 M113
BVO 085/058 084/064 -113
FYV 082/055 081/060 -1-3
IDB 08X6/059 085/064 M113

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 3, 12:04 AM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1201 AM CDT MON JUN 03 1996

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

1145 PM    3 WNW JAY                 OK   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/02/96   DELAWARE

1158 PM    GRAVETTE                  AR   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/02/96   BENTON

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 2, 11:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	53 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.