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Tornado Warning 72, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 22, 2003Benton County, Carroll County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 2003, 2:02 AM CDT for Benton County, Carroll County, Arkansas. It was in force for 28 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: Jul 22, 2003, 2:02 AM CDT (07:02 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2003, 2:30 AM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:06 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
Jul 22, 1:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 60 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: 166 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2509 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 30 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.

815 
WFUS54 KTSA 220702
TORTUL
ARC007-015-220730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
202 AM CDT TUE JUL 22 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  NORTHEASTERN BENTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
  CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 230 AM CDT

* AT 202 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH
  STRONG ROTATION 9 MILES WEST OF EUREKA SPRINGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 40 MPH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY
  TIME.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BERRYVILLE...
  EUREKA SPRINGS...OSAGE...GREEN FOREST...RUDD...RULE...URBANETTE AND
  GRANDVIEW.

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 3649 9389 3633 9400 3614 9337 3641 9330

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 1:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll	51 min
Jul 22, 2:16 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Madison	14 min
Jul 22, 2:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll, Madison	58 min
Jul 22, 3:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	33 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.