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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 19, 20104 counties in Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2010, 11:14 PM CDT for 4 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 2010, 11:14 PM CDT (04:14 UTC)
Expired: May 20, 2010, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Madison County, AR, Washington County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:17 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 19, 7:32 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 82 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: 807 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 355 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 864 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 19, 9:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 9:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
952 PM CDT WED MAY 19 2010

...UPDATE...

.DISCUSSION...
TRANSITION TO A LINEAR SYSTEM IS LARGELY UNDERWAY WITH RISKS
SHIFTING TO STRONG WINDS AND FLOODING RAINS. WESTERN EDGE OF
PRECIP LOOKS TO REMAIN THE WESTERN EDGE OF THE SEVERE WEATHER
THREAT...SO UNLESS NEW DEVELOPMENT OCCURS...WE WILL BE ABLE TO
TRIM THE WATCH FROM WEST TO EAST WITH TIME. OVERNIGHT FORECAST
DOMINATED BY CONVECTIVE INFLUENCE WITH ASSOCIATED IMPACTS
SPREADING INTO THURSDAY WIND AND INSTABILITY FORECASTS. LATEST NAM
DATA DOES REDEVELOP STORMS TOMORROW EVENING.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
TUL   64  76  56  82 /  90  50  20  10
FSM   66  79  62  83 / 100  80  50  10
MLC   67  79  63  86 /  90  50  30   0
BVO   60  75  53  81 /  90  50  20  10
FYV   63  75  59  79 / 100  80  50  10
BYV   61  75  58  79 / 100  80  60  10
MKO   64  77  61  82 /  90  60  30  10
MIO   61  75  56  79 /  90  70  30  10
F10   65  78  60  84 /  90  50  20   0
HHW   68  84  65  87 /  90  60  50   0

&&

.TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 7 PM THURSDAY FOR OKZ054-OKZ055-OKZ056-
     OKZ057-OKZ058-OKZ059-OKZ060-OKZ061-OKZ062-OKZ063-OKZ064-
     OKZ065-OKZ066-OKZ067-OKZ068-OKZ069-OKZ070-OKZ071-OKZ072-
     OKZ073-OKZ074-OKZ075-OKZ076.

AR...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 7 PM THURSDAY FOR ARZ001-ARZ002-ARZ010-
     ARZ011-ARZ019-ARZ020-ARZ029.

&&

LONG TERM....07

Hazardous weather outlook, May 19, 10:54 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1054 PM CDT WED MAY 19 2010

ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-201000-
ADAIR OK-BENTON AR-CARROLL AR-CHEROKEE OK-CHOCTAW OK-CRAIG OK-
CRAWFORD AR-CREEK OK-DELAWARE OK-FRANKLIN AR-HASKELL OK-LATIMER OK-
LE FLORE OK-MADISON AR-MAYES OK-MCINTOSH OK-MUSKOGEE OK-NOWATA OK-
OKFUSKEE OK-OKMULGEE OK-OSAGE OK-OTTAWA OK-PAWNEE OK-PITTSBURG OK-
PUSHMATAHA OK-ROGERS OK-SEBASTIAN AR-SEQUOYAH OK-TULSA OK-WAGONER OK-
WASHINGTON OK-WASHINGTON AR-
1054 PM CDT WED MAY 19 2010

 ...SEVERE WEATHER ONGOING ACROSS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND
EXPANDING INTO NORTHWEST ARKANSAS ALONG WITH FLASH FLOODING...

THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS
MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA.

.DAY ONE...THROUGH TONIGHT.
TORNADO.
	RISK...LIMITED.
 	AREA...FAR EASTERN...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS.
	ONSET...ONGOING.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.
	RISK...CRITICAL.
	AREA...MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS.
	ONSET...ONGOING .

	AREA AT GREATEST RISK...AREAS SOUTHEAST OF A MIAMI TO MCALESTER LINE.

FLASH FLOOD.
	RISK...SIGNIFICANT.
	AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS.
	ONSET...ONGOING .

	AREA AT GREATEST RISK...AREAS SOUTHEAST OF A MIAMI TO MCALESTER LINE.

HEAVY RAIN.
	RISK...SIGNIFICANT.
	AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS.
	ONSET...ONGOING .

	AREA AT GREATEST RISK...AREAS SOUTHEAST OF A MIAMI TO MCALESTER LINE.

DISCUSSION...
ONGOING SEVERE EVENT ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA HAS TRANSITIONED TO A BOW
ECHO/STRAIGHT LINE WIND EVENT AS THE ACTIVITY PUSHES FURTHER EAST.
HOWEVER...A LIMITED TORNADO THREAT EXISTS ACROSS SOUTHEAST
OKLAHOMA WHERE ISOLATED SUPERCELLS REMAIN POSSIBLE. NORTHEAST
OKLAHOMA...NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS REMAIN AT RISK FOR
HEAVY RAIN AND RESULTANT FLASH FLOODING WITH LOCAL AMOUNTS
APPROACHING 5 INCHES. OVERNIGHT...SEVERE AND FLASH FLOODING RISKS
WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH FROM WEST TO EAST...HOWEVER RUNOFF FROM
THE PREVIOUS RAINS WILL ALLOW AREAL FLOODING TO PERSIST.

SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION
OF THE REGIONAL SPOTTER NETWORK IS ONGOING...AND WILL CONTINUE
INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF THURSDAY

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.
THURSDAY...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL...HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL.
FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...NO HAZARDS.

EXTENDED DISCUSSION...
ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP THURSDAY AFTERNOON...AND
THESE STORMS WILL ALSO POSE A SEVERE WEATHER RISK. THE LOCALLY
HEAVY RAINS FROM THE ONGOING AND MOST RECENT EVENTS WOULD WORSEN
FLOOD POTENTIAL SHOULD STORMS DEVELOP OVER THE ANTECEDENT SOIL
CONDITIONS.

A MORE STABLE
WEATHER PATTERN IS FORECAST TO DEVELOP OVER THE WEEKEND...AND
PERSIST INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK.

WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 19, 9:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
934 PM CDT WED MAY 19 2010

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

0930 PM     FLASH FLOOD      1 S KIEFER              35.93N 96.07W
05/19/2010                   CREEK              OK   TRAINED SPOTTER

            ROADWAY FLOODED APPROX. 5 INCHES IN DEPTH

&&

JBM

Local storm report, May 19, 9:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
955 PM CDT WED MAY 19 2010

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

0950 PM     HAIL             6 E TAHLEQUAH           35.92N 94.86W
05/19/2010  E0.75 INCH       CHEROKEE           OK   BROADCAST MEDIA

&&

SFP

Local storm report, May 19, 10:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1003 PM CDT WED MAY 19 2010

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

1002 PM     FLASH FLOOD      TULSA                   36.13N 95.92W
05/19/2010                   TULSA              OK   AMATEUR RADIO

            A BRIDGE NEAR 101ST STREET SOUTH AND MEMORIAL WAS
            REPORTED COVERED BY WATER

&&

SFP

Local storm report, May 19, 10:17 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1017 PM CDT WED MAY 19 2010

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

1010 PM     HAIL             1 NW GREENWOOD          35.23N 94.27W
05/19/2010  M1.00 INCH       SEBASTIAN          AR   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

SFP

Local storm report, May 19, 10:45 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1045 PM CDT WED MAY 19 2010

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

1042 PM     FLASH FLOOD      4 NE OWASSO             36.31N 95.80W
05/19/2010                   ROGERS             OK   NWS EMPLOYEE

            106TH STREET NORTH EAST OF 161ST EAST AVENUE UNDER 1 FOOT
            OF WATER

&&

MAT

Local storm report, May 19, 10:51 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1051 PM CDT WED MAY 19 2010

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

1050 PM     FLASH FLOOD      MUSKOGEE                35.75N 95.37W
05/19/2010                   MUSKOGEE           OK   EMERGENCY MNGR

            MAJOR STREET FLOODING REPORTED IN MUSKOGEE

&&

MAT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 7:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Creek, Pawnee	44 min
May 19, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg	57 min
May 19, 7:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Creek, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner	53 min
May 19, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore	55 min
May 19, 7:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee	49 min
May 19, 7:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Creek	6 hr
May 19, 7:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	84 min
May 19, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa	62 min
May 19, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Sequoyah, Wagoner	59 min
May 19, 8:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Creek	50 min
May 19, 8:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Creek, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner	47 min
May 19, 8:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Tulsa	6 hr
May 19, 8:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee	54 min
May 19, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa	30 min
May 19, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee, Wagoner	58 min
May 19, 8:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Rogers, Wagoner	6 hr
May 19, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Mayes, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Osage, Rogers and 2 more	66 min
May 19, 8:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee	18 min
May 19, 8:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner	48 min
May 19, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg	60 min
May 19, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Ottawa	29 min
May 19, 9:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	23 min
May 19, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	67 min
May 19, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	62 min
May 19, 9:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner	50 min
May 19, 9:47 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Rogers, Wagoner	88 min
May 19, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Sequoyah and 1 more	58 min
May 19, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	45 min
May 19, 10:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Rogers, Wagoner	6 hr
May 19, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	64 min
May 19, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Sequoyah	53 min
May 19, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	53 min
May 19, 10:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Adair	116 min
May 19, 10:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	6 hr
May 19, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg	35 min
May 19, 11:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pushmataha	67 min
May 19, 11:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Sequoyah	62 min
May 19, 11:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	30 min
May 19, 11:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah	6 hr
May 20, 12:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	25 min
May 20, 12:24 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg and 1 more	6 hr
May 20, 12:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Sequoyah	57 min
May 20, 12:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer	35 min
May 20, 1:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	32 min
May 20, 1:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer	27 min
May 20, 1:27 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Creek	4 hr
May 20, 1:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha	45 min
May 20, 2:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Tulsa	4 hr
May 20, 2:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	44 min
May 20, 2:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	43 min
May 20, 2:21 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Ottawa	45 hr
May 20, 2:29 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Rogers, Wagoner	4 hr
May 20, 3:17 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Creek	30 hr
May 20, 3:51 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Rogers, Wagoner	4 hr
May 20, 4:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	24 min
May 20, 5:00 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	4 hr
May 20, 5:38 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah	4 hr
May 20, 5:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	35 min
May 20, 6:26 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg and 1 more	4 hr
May 20, 7:39 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee	4 hr
May 20, 8:19 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	TSA	Cherokee	19 hr
May 20, 8:28 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Ottawa	18 hr
May 20, 8:55 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	4 hr
May 20, 10:25 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	6 hr
May 20, 11:08 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	4 hr
May 19, 11:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Carroll	49 min
May 20, 1:48 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Benton	4 hr
May 20, 5:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Benton	4 hr
May 20, 1:56 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	6 hr

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.