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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 283, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 6, 1996Carroll County, Madison County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1996, 2:46 PM CDT for Carroll County, Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 44 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 6, 1996, 2:46 PM CDT (19:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 1996, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Carroll County, AR, Madison County, AR

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 6, 3:01 PM CDT	Hail 1	Green Forest, AR
Jun 6, 3:15 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	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 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 82 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: 269 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1023 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 3.5

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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 Jun 6, 10:25 AM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 10:25 AM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 12:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 6, 2:20 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
215 PM CDT THU JUN 06 1996

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

1225 AM    BRISTOW                   OK   WIND DAMAGE
06/06/96   CREEK                          LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN

1250 AM    4 E NEW PRUE              OK   WIND DAMAGE
06/06/96   OSAGE                          SMALL TREES AND LIMBS
                                          KNOCKED DOWN

1250 AM    4 E NEW PRUE              OK   TSTM GUST
06/06/96   OSAGE                          60 MPH WIND GUST AT
                                          ZINK RANCH

1250 AM    4 E NEW PRUE              OK   WIND DAMAGE
06/06/96   OSAGE                          SMALL TREES AND LIMBS
                                          KNOCKED DOWN

1250 AM    4 E NEW PRUE              OK   TSTM GUST
06/06/96   OSAGE                          60 MPH WIND GUST AT
                                          ZINK RANCH

0120 AM    8 SE FORAKER              OK   TSTM GUST
06/06/96   OSAGE                          65 MPH WIND GUST RECORDED
                                          ON MESONET.  OTHER GUSTS
                                          IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH RECORDED
                                          BETWEEN 110 AM AND 130 AM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 11:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	63 min
Jun 6, 12:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa	67 min
Jun 6, 12:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	40 min
Jun 6, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	51 min
Jun 6, 2:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	47 min
Jun 6, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	47 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.