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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 293, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 22, 1999Madison County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1999, 5:22 PM CDT for Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 38 min. 1 report 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: May 22, 1999, 5:22 PM CDT (22:22 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 1999, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Madison County, AR

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 22, 6:00 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Japton, 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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 344 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: 1999 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 912 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 May 22, 2:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 2:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
235 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 1999

NO DISCUSSION WILL BE WRITTEN THIS AFTERNOON DUE TO SEVERE WEATHER.

FCSTID = 11

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 22, 3:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
323 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 1999

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

0215 PM    1 W SHIDLER               OK    1 INCH HAIL
05/22/99   OSAGE

0221 PM    DEWEY                     OK    1 INCH HAIL
05/22/99   WASHINGTON

0225 PM    SHIDLER                   OK    2.5 INCH HAIL
05/22/99   OSAGE

0322 PM    WYNONA                    OK    1.75 INCH HAIL
05/22/99   OSAGE

Local storm report, May 22, 3:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
323 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 1999

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

0215 PM    1 W SHIDLER               OK    1 INCH HAIL
05/22/99   OSAGE

0221 PM    DEWEY                     OK    1 INCH HAIL
05/22/99   WASHINGTON

0225 PM    SHIDLER                   OK    2.5 INCH HAIL
05/22/99   OSAGE

0322 PM    WYNONA                    OK    1.75 INCH HAIL
05/22/99   OSAGE

Local storm report, May 22, 4:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 22, 5:01 PM CDT, 21 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
May 22, 1:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	52 min
May 22, 2:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	39 min
May 22, 2:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	66 min
May 22, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage	30 min
May 22, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	38 min
May 22, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Delaware	51 min
May 22, 3:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage	33 min
May 22, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	47 min
May 22, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	62 min
May 22, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	54 min
May 22, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pawnee	51 min
May 22, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	50 min
May 22, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	50 min
May 22, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	66 min
May 22, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	49 min
May 22, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pawnee	43 min
May 22, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	46 min
May 22, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Washington	40 min
May 22, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pawnee	48 min
May 22, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers	43 min
May 22, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	53 min
May 22, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	50 min
May 22, 6:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Tulsa	3 hr
May 22, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	41 min
May 22, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	45 min
May 22, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	42 min
May 22, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Mayes	53 min
May 22, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	46 min
May 22, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	48 min
May 22, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford	54 min
May 22, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin	52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1999 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.