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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 19, 2010Benton County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Jun 19, 2010, 5:21 PM CDT for Benton County, Arkansas. It was in force for 24 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: Jun 19, 2010, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2010, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK

County Benton County, AR

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 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: 623 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -172 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 773 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.5

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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 Jun 19, 3:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 3:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 5:05 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 5:21 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
521 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 2010

ARZ001-192245-
BENTON AR-
521 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 2010

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...

IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
     CENTRAL BENTON

AT 520 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES EAST OF
BENTONVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH. ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
WERE LOCATED 3 MILES WEST OF ROGERS. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE
AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...BENTONVILLE...ROGERS...PEA RIDGE
AND BELLA VISTA.

THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH.
RESIDENTS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE THE SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY IS UPGRADED TO A WARNING.

LAT...LON 3649 9397 3626 9408 3628 9427 3650 9428
      3650 9398
TIME...MOT...LOC 2220Z 180DEG 3KT 3638 9416

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 3:13 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Ottawa, Pawnee and 4 more	11 hr
Jun 19, 1:48 PM CDT	Excessive Heat Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell, McIntosh and 12 more	4 days
Jun 19, 5:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Carroll	41 min
Jun 19, 5:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Carroll	2 hr
Jun 19, 6:01 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Benton	119 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Arkansas, 2010 Every special weather statement in 2010

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.