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Tornado Warning 46, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Apr 6, 2006, 9:01 PM CDT for Sebastian County, Arkansas. It was in force for 29 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 6, 2006, 9:01 PM CDT (02:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2006, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sebastian County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 7 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 9:05 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Greenwood, AR | TREE DOWN AND POWER LINES DOWN |
| Apr 6, 9:13 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 65 | Greenwood, AR | |
| Apr 6, 9:13 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Greenwood, AR | |
| Apr 6, 9:14 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Greenwood, AR | TREE DOWN ON HOUSE |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 187 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 571 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 665 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KTSA 070201 TORTSA ARC131-070230- /O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0046.060407T0201Z-060407T0230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 901 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SEBASTIAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 858 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HACKETT...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...JENNY LIND... GREENWOOD...BARLING...BURNVILLE...LAVACA...WASHBURN...BLOOMER AND FORT CHAFFEE. 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 3534 9444 3505 9443 3518 9404 3543 9408 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KTSA 070211 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 911 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006 ARC131-070230- /O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0046.000000T0000Z-060407T0230Z/ SEBASTIAN AR- 911 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR SEBASTIAN COUNTY... AT 906 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THIS STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF GREENWOOD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...LAVACA... BLOOMER...FORT CHAFFEE AND URSULA. IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS LAT...LON 3535 9432 3511 9432 3518 9404 3543 9408 $$
000 WWUS54 KTSA 070229 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 930 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006 ARC131-070240- /O.EXP.KTSA.TO.W.0046.000000T0000Z-060407T0230Z/ SEBASTIAN AR- 930 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SEBASTIAN COUNTY EXPIRES AT 930 PM CDT... THE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT. LAT...LON 3535 9432 3511 9432 3518 9404 3543 9408 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 64 min |
| Apr 6, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Crawford | 46 min |
| Apr 6, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 63 min |
| Apr 6, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin, Madison | 71 min |
| Apr 6, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford | 27 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.