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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 344, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 29, 1996Benton County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1996, 10:30 PM CDT for Benton County, Arkansas. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 29, 1996, 10:30 PM CDT (03:30 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 1996, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Benton County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 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.

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: 120 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -116 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1250 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 161 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 208 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 Jul 29, 8:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 8:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

NORTHWEST ARKANSAS/EASTERN OKLAHOMA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
855 PM CDT MON JUL 29 1996

00Z UA ANALYS INDCTS S/W ROTATING SEWD OUT OF FA THIS EVE.  TSTMS ACRS
SRN PTNS OF FA SHUD BGN TO DCRS SHRTLY AS UPR SUPPORT MOVS EWD.  HWVR
CDFNT RMNS NW OF FA AND CANNOT DISMISS PSBL REDVLPMNT LT TNGT...SPCLY
IF SLY LO LVL JET REESTBLSHS TO THE WEST OVRNGT.  SATL PICS INDCT
ANOTHR S/W MOVG SWD OUT OF UPR MS VLY.  IF MCS DVLPS FM TH"IS S/W...
IT WUD AFFECT MNLY NWRN AR LT TNGT.  WL MAKE ONLY MINOR CHGS ON THIS
UPDATE.   /11

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

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 29, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	44 min
Jul 29, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa	47 min
Jul 29, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers	48 min
Jul 30, 12:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	49 min
Jul 30, 12:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Delaware	37 min
Jul 30, 1:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee	44 min
Jul 30, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Sequoyah	65 min
Jul 29, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	44 min
Jul 30, 1:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Washington	57 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.