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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 257, NWS Tulsa, OK

September 1, 2013Washington County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 1, 2013, 3:16 PM CDT for Washington County, Arkansas. It was in force for 44 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
Sep 1, 2013, 3:16 PM CDT (20:16 UTC)
Expired
Sep 1, 2013, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Washington County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 109 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2013-09-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 440 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2013-09-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
440 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-192 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2217 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Sep 1, 12:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 1, 12:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 1, 1:11 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
111 PM CDT SUN SEP 1 2013

ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-021000-
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-
110 PM CDT SUN SEP 1 2013

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.
	RISK...LIMITED.
	AREA...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN ARKANSAS.
	ONSET...LATE AFTERNOON.

DANGEROUS HEAT.
	RISK...ELEVATED.
	AREA...SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 44.
	ONSET...ONGOING.

DISCUSSION...
A COLD FRONT...CURRENTLY NEAR INTERSTATE 44...WILL CONTINUE
SLOWLY SOUTHWARD THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO DEVELOP ALONG AND NORTH OF
THE COLD FRONT.  ANY STORMS WHICH FORM NEAR THE BOUNDARY WILL
HAVE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG OUTFLOW WINDS...WITH A FEW
STORMS POSSIBLY BECOMING SEVERE.  ADDITIONALLY...HOT AND HUMID
CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON SOUTH OF THE COLD
FRONT...WITH HEAT INDEX VALUES AROUND 105 DEGREES EXPECTED.

SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT...
LOCAL SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THROUGH MID EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.
MONDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL.
TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...NO HAZARDS.

EXTENDED DISCUSSION...
A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE ONGOING EARLY MONDAY ACROSS
SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS...HOWEVER CHANCES
WILL DIMINISH THROUGH THE DAY AS THE COLD FRONT CONTINUES TO
PUSH SOUTH OF THE AREA.  DRY AND COOLER WEATHER WILL PREVAIL
THROUGH MID WEEK...WITH A SLOW WARM UP LIKELY BY LATE WEEK.

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 1, 3:55 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAPushmataha35 min
Sep 1, 4:04 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAPushmataha26 min
Sep 1, 4:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSALatimer28 min
Sep 1, 5:10 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSALatimer35 min
Sep 1, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore40 min
Sep 1, 5:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSALeFlore23 min
Sep 1, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore45 min
Sep 1, 5:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSALeFlore28 min
Sep 1, 6:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSALeFlore31 min
Sep 1, 6:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore42 min
Sep 1, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACrawford, Franklin, Washington63 min
Sep 1, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACrawford48 min
Sep 1, 5:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACrawford30 min
Sep 1, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACrawford, Sebastian39 min
Sep 1, 5:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSASebastian35 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.