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Tornado Warning 73, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 22, 2003Madison County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 2003, 2:16 AM CDT for Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 14 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, 2:16 AM CDT (07:16 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2003, 2:30 AM CDT
In force: 14 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Madison County, AR

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:16 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 79 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.

770 
WFUS54 KTSA 220716
TORTUL
ARC087-220730-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  NORTHERN MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 230 AM CDT

* AT 216 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH
  STRONG ROTATION 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF ROCKHOUSE...MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 40 MPH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY
  TIME.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ROCKHOUSE.

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 3611 9354 3623 9371 3626 9382 3632 9381
          3631 9366 3628 9365 3627 9360 3620 9361
          3618 9357 3615 9354 3614 9353 3613 9352

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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, 2:02 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll	28 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.