Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 223, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 30, 19974 counties in Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1997, 12:31 AM CDT for 4 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 59 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: Jun 30, 1997, 12:31 AM CDT (05:31 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 1997, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Madison County, AR, Washington County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 555 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 998 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.8

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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 30, 12:09 AM CDT, 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 12:09 AM CDT, 22 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 29, 10:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1050 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 1997

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

0900 PM    4W COPA6N                  OK   65 MPH TSTM GUST
06/29/97   WASHINGTON

0845 PM    HULAH DAM                 OK   70 MPH TSTM GUST
06/29/97   OSAGE

0855 PM    HULAH DAM                 OK   80 MPH TSTM GUST
06/29/97   OSAGE

Local storm report, Jun 29, 10:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1050 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 1997

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

0900 PM    4W COPAN                  OK   65 MPH TSTM GUST
06/29/97   WASHINGTON

0845 PM    HULAH DAM                 OK   70 MPH TSTM GUST
06/29/97   OSAGE

0855 PM    HULAH DAM                 OK   80 MPH TSTM GUST
06/29/97   OSAGE

Local storm report, Jun 29, 10:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1051 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 1997

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

0850 PM    5NW BARNSDALL             OK   WIND DAMAGE
06/29/97   OSAGE                          TREE LIMBS DOWN
                                          REPORTED BY CHANNEL 6
                                          METEOROLOGIST

0855 PM    AVANT                     OK   WIND DAMAGE
06/29/97   OSAGE                          4-5 INCH TREE LIMBS DOWN
                                          REPORTED BY CHANNEL 6
                                          METEOROLOGIST

Local storm report, Jun 29, 10:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1051 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 1997

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

0850 PM    5NW BARNSDALL             OK   WIND DAMAGE
06/29/97   OSAGE                          TREE LIMBS DOWN
                                          REPORTED BY CHANNEL 6
                                          METEOROLOGIST

0855 PM    AVANT              ^       OK   WIND DAMAGE
06/29/97   OSAGE                          4-5 INCH TREE LIMBS DOWN
                                          REPORTED BY CHANNEL 6
                                          METEOROLOGIST

Special weather statement, Jun 29, 11:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

OKZ054-055-056-057-058-059-060-061-062-063-064-065-066-067-068-
069-070-071-300500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1128 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 1997

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 540 HAS EXPIRED FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA...

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 540 HAS EXPIRED FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA.  THE
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED AND ARE NOT EXPECTED TO PRODUCE ANY MORE
ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER.  HOWEVER...AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS
WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...WELL PAST MIDNIGHT.

AT 1120 PM...THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM BENTON COUNTY
ARKANSAS TO ADAIR COUNTY OKLAHOMA AND ON WESTWARD ACROSS MUSKOGEE...
OKMULGEE...AND OKFUSKEE COUNTIES.  THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTH AND EAST AT
ABOUT 20 TO 30 MPH. SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED NORTH OF
THE LINE...ALL THE WAY TO THE KANSAS STATE LINE.

STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

Special weather statement, Jun 29, 11:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

OKZ054-055-056-057-058-059-060-061-062-063-064-065-066-067-068-
069-070-071-300500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1128 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 1997

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 540 HAS EXPIRED FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA...

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 540 HAS EXPIRED FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA.  THE
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED AND ARE NOT EXPECTED TO PRODUCE ANY MORE
ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER.  HOWEVER...AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS
WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...WELL PAST MIDNIGHT.

AT 1120 PM...THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM BENTON COUNTY
ARKANSAS TO ADAIR COUNTY OKLAHOMA AND ON WESTWARD ACROSS MUSKOGEE...
OKMULGEE...AND OKFUSKEE COUNTIES.  THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTH AND EAST AT
ABOUT 20 TO 30 MPH. SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED NORTH OF
THE LINE...ALL THE WAY TO THE KANSAS STATE LINE.

STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	57 min
Jun 29, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	52 min
Jun 29, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	54 min
Jun 29, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	66 min
Jun 29, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Rogers	66 min
Jun 29, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	30 min
Jun 29, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Wagoner	61 min
Jun 29, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig	61 min
Jun 29, 11:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	52 min
Jun 30, 12:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Sequoyah	63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1997 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.