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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 6, 2003Madison County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2003, 6:47 PM CDT for Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 58 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 6, 2003, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2003, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Madison County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 6, 11:40 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 97 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: 34 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -216 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1877 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

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

842 
WFUS54 KTSA 062347
TORTUL
ARC087-070045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
647 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  CENTRAL MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 647 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH
  STRONG ROTATION 7 MILES SOUTH OF WESLEY...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
  THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...HUNTSVILLE...
  AURORA...WESLEY...KINGSTON...WITTER...JAPTON AND MARBLE.

IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW IF NO
UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS

LAT...LON 3604 9393 3584 9396 3598 9345 3622 9363

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	42 min
May 6, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Washington	57 min
May 6, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	46 min
May 6, 6:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Washington	43 min
May 6, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin	61 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.