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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 3, 2004Benton County, Washington County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2004, 12:28 AM CDT for Benton County, Washington County, Arkansas. It was in force for 47 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 3, 2004, 12:28 AM CDT (05:28 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2004, 1:15 AM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Benton County, AR, Washington County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 548 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 767 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 212 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KTSA 030528
SVRTUL
ARC007-143-030615-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1228 AM CDT SAT JUL 3 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN BENTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
  NORTHEASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 115 AM CDT

* AT 1228 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF HIGHFILL...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...LOWELL...
  SPRINGTOWN...HIGHFILL...CAVE SPRINGS...WAR EAGLE...SPRINGDALE AND
  TONTITOWN.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE 
EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS 
UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3631 9447 3612 9438 3605 9393 3633 9394

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 8:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton	36 min
Jul 2, 8:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Sebastian	6 hr
Jul 2, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	57 min
Jul 2, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	38 min
Jul 2, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	37 min
Jul 2, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	49 min
Jul 2, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	50 min
Jul 2, 11:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Benton, Madison	4 hr
Jul 3, 1:44 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian, Washington	6 hr

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.