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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Tulsa, OK

January 8, 2008Benton County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jan 8, 2008, 12:38 AM CST for Benton County, Arkansas. It was in force for 19 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: Jan 8, 2008, 12:38 AM CST (06:38 UTC)
Expired: Jan 8, 2008, 12:57 AM CST
In force: 19 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Benton County, AR

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:39 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
Jan 7, 7:48 PM CST	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 75 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: 765 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 955 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 281 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 338 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.7
Supercell composite: 7.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KTSA 080638
TORTSA
ARC007-080745-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0021.080108T0638Z-080108T0745Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1238 AM CST TUE JAN 8 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN BENTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 145 AM CST

* AT 1237 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF
  MAYSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...MAYSVILLE...
  GRAVETTE AND HIWASSE.

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 3647 9406 3644 9423 3635 9447 3632 9457
      3633 9459 3639 9459 3641 9461 3649 9460
      3649 9406
TIME...MOT...LOC 0638Z 236DEG 48KT 3634 9461

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KTSA 080657
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1257 AM CST TUE JAN 8 2008

ARC007-080707-
/O.CAN.KTSA.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-080108T0745Z/
BENTON AR-
1257 AM CST TUE JAN 8 2008

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN BENTON COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...THEREFORE THE
TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 3647 9406 3644 9423 3635 9447 3632 9457
      3633 9459 3639 9459 3641 9461 3649 9460
      3649 9406
TIME...MOT...LOC 0657Z 236DEG 48KT 3648 9435

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 7, 7:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton	31 min
Jan 7, 7:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton	48 min
Jan 7, 8:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	66 min
Jan 7, 8:24 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	4 hr
Jan 7, 8:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton	66 min
Jan 7, 9:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton	63 min
Jan 7, 10:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton	60 min
Jan 7, 11:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	35 min
Jan 8, 1:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	60 min
Jan 8, 2:11 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Benton	3 hr
Jan 8, 2:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll	58 min
Jan 8, 2:58 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	32 min

Nearby

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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.