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Tornado Warning 43, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 16, 1997Sebastian County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 1997, 8:30 PM CDT for Sebastian County, Arkansas. It was in force for 30 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 16, 1997, 8:30 PM CDT (01:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 1997, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Sebastian County, AR

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 16, 4:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 194 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: 621 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1258 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 170132 RRA
TORTUL
ARC131-170200-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
830 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS
 
   ...SOUTHERN SEBASTIAN COUNTY
 
AT 828 PM...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND BETWEEN
GREENWOOD AND BURNVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MPH.
WASHBURN AND BURNVILLE ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE.
OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.
STAY AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND
MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET IN A GROUND DEPRESSION.
 
WATCH FOR SIGNS OF DEVELOPING STORMS.  LARGE HAILSTONES AND UNUSUALLY
LOW SWIRLING CLOUDS ARE MANY TIMES SEEN NEAR DEVELOPING TORNADOES.
STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND TORNADOES OFTEN PRODUCE A LOUD ROARING
SOUND THAT CAN BE HEARD IN THE VICINITY OF STORMS. FREQUENT AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING OCCURS WITH MOST SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
 
KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.
 
 
 
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford	54 min
Jun 16, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	48 min
Jun 16, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford	42 min
Jun 16, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	55 min
Jun 16, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	45 min
Jun 16, 10:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Sebastian	4 hr

Nearby

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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.