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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 28, 2008Madison County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Mar 28, 2008, 1:05 AM CDT for Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 25 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 28, 2008, 1:05 AM CDT (06:05 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 2008, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK

County Madison County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 95 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: 1283 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1560 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 204 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 5.1

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The text

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

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Mar 27, 8:55 PM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 27, 8:55 PM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
855 PM CDT THU MAR 27 2008

.DISCUSSION...
FRONT CONTINUING TO MAKE ITS WAY INTO NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AND
SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA THIS EVENING...WITH MUCH OF THE ACTIVITY NOW
ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. SOME ELEVATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE
OCCURRING OVER NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA BEHIND THE BOUNDARY. ADJUSTED
TEMPS DOW SOME ACROSS THE FAR SOUTHEAST ZONES...AND ADJUSTED WINDS
SOME BASED ON CURRENT FRONTAL TRENDS. TRENDED POPS TO CHANCE
CATEGORY AFTER 06Z AS THE CHANCES FOR ELEVATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE
COLDER AIR CONTINUE. OTHERWISE...REST OF FORECAST WILL BE LEFT AS
IS. CURRENT WATCH TO EXPIRE AT 11 PM... SO ANOTHER UPDATE WILL BE
REQUIRED AT THAT TIME.

UPDATED ZFP/PFM/AFM OUT SHORTLY.

&&

.TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OK...NONE.
AR...NONE.
&&

SHORT TERM...23

Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 27, 11:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 27, 9:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
910 PM CDT THU MAR 27 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0612 PM     HAIL             5 SSE GROVE             36.53N 94.73W
03/27/2008  E1.25 INCH       DELAWARE           OK   EMERGENCY MNGR

            PEA TO HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL SSE OF GROVE

&&

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Local storm report, Mar 27, 10:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1043 PM CDT THU MAR 27 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1040 PM     HAIL             HOWE                    34.95N 94.64W
03/27/2008  E0.88 INCH       LE FLORE           OK   AMATEUR RADIO

1040 PM     HAIL             WISTER                  34.97N 94.72W
03/27/2008  E0.88 INCH       LE FLORE           OK   AMATEUR RADIO

&&

DMJ

Local storm report, Mar 27, 10:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1050 PM CDT THU MAR 27 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1048 PM     HAIL             POTEAU                  35.05N 94.62W
03/27/2008  E0.88 INCH       LE FLORE           OK   EMERGENCY MNGR

1049 PM     HAIL             POTEAU                  35.05N 94.62W
03/27/2008  E0.88 INCH       LE FLORE           OK   AMATEUR RADIO

&&

DMJ

Local storm report, Mar 27, 10:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1058 PM CDT THU MAR 27 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1048 PM     HAIL             7 SE POTEAU             34.98N 94.54W
03/27/2008  E0.88 INCH       LE FLORE           OK   AMATEUR RADIO

            NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED SOUTHEAST OF POTEAU IN THE CITY
            OF MONROE

&&

DMJ

Special weather statement, Mar 27, 11:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 28, 1:05 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 27, 7:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	53 min
Mar 27, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg	64 min
Mar 27, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	65 min
Mar 27, 7:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh, Pittsburg	33 min
Mar 27, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg	66 min
Mar 27, 8:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	24 min
Mar 27, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore	73 min
Mar 27, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah	46 min
Mar 27, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	46 min
Mar 27, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll	47 min
Mar 27, 8:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Carroll	35 min
Mar 27, 11:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	34 min
Mar 27, 11:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Carroll	61 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.