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Tornado Warning 64, NWS Tulsa, OK

September 22, 2006Madison County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Sep 22, 2006, 5:53 PM CDT for Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 37 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: Sep 22, 2006, 5:53 PM CDT (22:53 UTC)
Expired: Sep 22, 2006, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 37 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), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 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
Sep 22, 12:06 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 104 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: 409 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 642 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 311 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 363 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 8.7

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KTSA 222253
TORTSA
ARC087-222330-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0064.060922T2253Z-060922T2330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
553 PM CDT FRI SEP 22 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 549 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF KINGSTON...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

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

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 3601 9364 3588 9363 3589 9350 3612 9347

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KTSA 222318
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
618 PM CDT FRI SEP 22 2006

ARC087-222330-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0064.000000T0000Z-060922T2330Z/
MADISON AR-
618 PM CDT FRI SEP 22 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR MADISON
COUNTY...

AT 616 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR BRASHEARS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...SAINT PAUL...
DUTTON...BOSTON...PETTIGREW...RED STAR AND ARBAUGH.

THE STORM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ORIGINAL TORNADO WARNING HAS EXITED 
FRANKLIN COUNTY. 

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 3588 9383 3576 9384 3575 9352 3593 9349

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 22, 2:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford	43 min
Sep 22, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	38 min
Sep 22, 3:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	55 min
Sep 22, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll	48 min
Sep 22, 3:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Madison	38 min
Sep 22, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford	62 min
Sep 22, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	55 min
Sep 22, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	63 min
Sep 22, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin	62 min
Sep 22, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	45 min
Sep 22, 6:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Franklin	50 min
Sep 22, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	14 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.