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Tornado Warning 93, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 10, 2008Benton County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2008, 6:45 PM CDT for Benton County, Arkansas. It was in force for 30 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: May 10, 2008, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2008, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Benton County, AR

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 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
May 10, 11:29 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 70 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: 1161 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 153 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.

000 
WFUS54 KTSA 102345
TORTSA
ARC007-110015-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0093.080510T2345Z-080511T0015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
645 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 642 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR DECATUR...
  MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...HIGHFILL...
  HIWASSE...CAVE SPRINGS...BELLA VISTA...BENTONVILLE...LOWELL...
  ROGERS AND PEA RIDGE.

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 3649 9410 3623 9412 3626 9450 3647 9449
TIME...MOT...LOC 2345Z 267DEG 55KT 3633 9438

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 12:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	52 min
May 10, 1:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll, Madison, Washington	61 min
May 10, 1:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Carroll, Madison, Washington	43 min
May 10, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian, Washington	65 min
May 10, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian	57 min
May 10, 3:23 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington	19 hr
May 10, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian, Washington	66 min
May 10, 5:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton	53 min
May 10, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford	59 min
May 10, 6:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	40 min
May 10, 6:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington	46 min
May 10, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	45 min
May 10, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Washington	63 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.