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Tornado Warning 65, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 2, 2008, 4:47 AM CDT for Benton County, Arkansas. It was in force for 13 min. 1 report 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
- May 2, 2008, 4:47 AM CDT (09:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2008, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 13 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Benton County, AR
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 4:47 AM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Garfield, AR | SEVERAL LARGE TREES DOWN. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 1:09 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 1112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -241 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1195 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KTSA 020947
TORTSA
ARC007-021000-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0065.080502T0947Z-080502T1000Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
447 AM CDT FRI MAY 2 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN BENTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
* UNTIL 500 AM CDT
* AT 442 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
A POTENTIALLY TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG LOW LEVEL ROTATION
5 MILES WEST OF GARFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. THIS
DANGEROUS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING A TORNADO...TAKE COVER
NOW
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...GATEWAY.
NIGHTTIME TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS...TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU
WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A
SAFE PLACE
LAT...LON 3649 9385 3642 9386 3635 9404 3649 9411
3650 9410 3650 9398 3651 9397 3651 9386
TIME...MOT...LOC 0947Z 245DEG 53KT 3648 9397
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 3:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 60 min |
| May 2, 4:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Benton, Washington | 43 min |
| May 2, 4:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian, Washington | 64 min |
| May 2, 4:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Benton, Washington | 24 min |
| May 2, 4:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington | 79 min |
| May 2, 5:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian, Washington | 80 min |
| May 2, 6:12 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Franklin | 30 days |
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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.