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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 26, 2000Washington County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2000, 11:30 PM CDT for Washington County, Arkansas. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2000, 11:30 PM CDT (04:30 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2000, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Washington County, AR

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 26, 11:50 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Strickler, 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 26, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 1527 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1270 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 125 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 10.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

508 
WUUS54 KTSA 270431
SVRTUL
ARC143-270515-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1130 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT

* AT 1130 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STILWELL...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...GREENLAND...
BRENTWOOD...STRICKLER...BLACKBURN...FARMINGTON...PRAIRIE 
GROVE...LINCOLN...WEST FORK...FAYETTEVILLE AND STILWELL.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED 
IN THE WARNED AREA.

BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH.

CALL 1-800-722-2778 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3582 9465 3566 9454 3590 9399 3617 9424

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	53 min
May 26, 8:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Madison	42 min
May 26, 10:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	40 min
May 26, 11:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin	48 min
May 27, 12:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Madison	4 hr

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.