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Tornado Warning 74, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 29, 2003Madison County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jul 29, 2003, 5:53 PM CDT for Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 67 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 29, 2003, 5:53 PM CDT (22:53 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 2003, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
67 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), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 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 nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 112 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2003-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 169 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2003-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -33 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
169 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-183 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
998 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
179 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.

207 
WFUS54 KTSA 292253
TORTUL
ARC087-300000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
553 PM CDT TUE JUL 29 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  SOUTHERN MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 553 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH
  STRONG ROTATION 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF BOSTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
  20 MPH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...PETTIGREW...
  BOSTON AND WITTER.

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 3598 9366 3582 9376 3577 9353 3596 9351

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 29, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMadison60 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Arkansas, 2003Every tornado warning in 2003Tornadoes in 2003

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.