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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 3, 2008Carroll County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Apr 3, 2008, 10:39 AM CDT for Carroll County, Arkansas. It was in force for 66 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: Apr 3, 2008, 10:39 AM CDT (15:39 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 2008, 11:45 AM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK

County Carroll County, AR

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 59 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 492 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 264 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 245 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Apr 3, 3:47 AM CDT, 6 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 3:47 AM CDT, 6 hours 52 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 3, 10:39 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1039 AM CDT THU APR 3 2008

ARZ002-031645-
CARROLL AR-
1039 AM CDT THU APR 3 2008

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 AM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...

IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
     NORTHERN CARROLL

AT 1039 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3
MILES NORTHEAST OF EUREKA SPRINGS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. SOME
LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...OAK GROVE...
OAK HILL...PLEASANT RIDGE...DENVER...BERRYVILLE...EUREKA SPRINGS...
GREEN FOREST...COIN...URBANETTE...GRANDVIEW AND BEAVER.

THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO
40 MPH.

LAT...LON 3650 9329 3632 9330 3634 9376 3649 9382
TIME...MOT...LOC 1539Z 246DEG 35KT 3644 9368

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 3, 2:07 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	LeFlore	50 hr
Apr 3, 2:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh	50 min
Apr 3, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh	44 min
Apr 3, 2:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell	39 min
Apr 3, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee, Sequoyah	64 min
Apr 3, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Pittsburg	53 min
Apr 3, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Sequoyah	31 min
Apr 3, 4:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair, Sequoyah	31 min
Apr 3, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Washington	44 min
Apr 3, 6:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw	38 min
Apr 3, 6:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer	49 min
Apr 3, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers	38 min
Apr 3, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	64 min
Apr 3, 6:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okfuskee	43 min
Apr 3, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore	54 min
Apr 3, 6:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okfuskee	64 min
Apr 3, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	45 min
Apr 3, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw	65 min
Apr 3, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Washington	45 min
Apr 3, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	39 min
Apr 3, 5:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Madison, Washington	8 hr
Apr 3, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian	49 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.