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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 370, NWS Tulsa, OK

September 23, 1996Crawford County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 23, 1996, 10:36 PM CDT for Crawford County, Arkansas. It was in force for 54 min. 3 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: Sep 23, 1996, 10:36 PM CDT (03:36 UTC)
Expired: Sep 23, 1996, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Crawford County, AR

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Sep 23, 11:05 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg, AR
Sep 23, 11:10 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 56	Mountainburg, AR
Sep 23, 11:37 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Van Buren, 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, 3.6 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -354 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 527 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 230 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

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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 Sep 23, 9:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 23, 9:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 23, 6:17 PM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
617 PM CDT MON SEP 23 1996

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

0609 PM    FAIRFAX                   OK   .75 INCH HAIL
09/23/96   OSAGE

Local storm report, Sep 23, 6:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
642 PM CDT MON SEP 23 1996

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

0620 PM .   15 NW FAIRFAX             OK   1 INCH HAIL
09/23/96   OSAGE

Local storm report, Sep 23, 9:48 PM CDT, 48 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
Sep 23, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Washington	54 min
Sep 23, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pawnee	49 min
Sep 23, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	63 min
Sep 23, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers, Washington	53 min
Sep 23, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	55 min
Sep 23, 11:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg	58 min
Sep 23, 11:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	49 min
Sep 23, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison, Washington	42 min
Sep 23, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	61 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.