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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 4, 2004Franklin County, Madison County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 4, 2004, 5:54 PM CST for Franklin County, Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 81 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
Mar 4, 2004, 5:54 PM CST (23:54 UTC)
Expired
Mar 4, 2004, 7:15 PM CST
In force
81 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Franklin County, AR, Madison County, AR

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 4, 2:05 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 132 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 2004-03-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2004-03-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 148 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
546 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

381 
WUUS54 KTSA 042354
SVRTUL
ARC047-087-050115-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
554 PM CST THU MAR 4 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
  FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 715 PM CST

* AT 554 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
  A LINE EXTENDING FROM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF FERN TO 15 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF FERN TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHARLESTON...MOVING EAST
  AT 55 MPH.

* ALL LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNED COUNTIES WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL   
  TO EXPERIENCE WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH.

STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. TORNADOES CAN
DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH.

LAT...LON 3579 9352 3575 9369 3538 9370 3542 9381
          3532 9383 3524 9408 3558 9403 3566 9409
          3575 9392 3614 9392 3631 9368 3615 9350

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 4, 5:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACrawford, Sebastian, Washington60 min
Mar 4, 5:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSABenton64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.