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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 4, 2024Carroll County, Madison County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 2024, 3:28 PM CDT for Carroll County, Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 15 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 4, 2024, 3:28 PM CDT (20:28 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 2024, 3:43 PM CDT
In force: 15 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Carroll County, AR, Madison County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 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: 905 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 730 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 159 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 142 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 May 4, 2:50 PM CDT, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 4, 2:50 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 4, 12:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 4, 2:46 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 4, 2:53 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 4, 3:03 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 4, 3:16 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 4, 3:19 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 4, 3:24 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 2:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	52 min
May 4, 3:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Wagoner	37 min
May 4, 3:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	34 min
May 4, 3:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Wagoner	27 min
May 4, 3:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Wagoner	31 min
May 4, 4:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Delaware	33 min
May 4, 10:41 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	3 hr
May 4, 11:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh	31 min
May 4, 11:18 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	3 hr
May 4, 11:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Muskogee	25 min
May 4, 11:49 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	3 hr
May 4, 11:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Muskogee	33 min
May 4, 12:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Muskogee	27 min
May 4, 2:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	37 min
May 4, 3:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Delaware	27 min
May 4, 3:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	24 min
May 4, 3:53 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Delaware	112 min
May 4, 4:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	50 min
May 4, 4:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	3 hr
May 4, 5:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	47 min
May 4, 5:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	37 min
May 4, 11:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Madison	43 min
May 4, 11:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	40 min
May 4, 12:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sebastian	23 min
May 4, 2:04 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	TSA	Franklin, Johnson, Logan	24 hr
May 4, 2:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Benton	29 min
May 4, 3:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Benton	29 min
May 4, 3:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Carroll	26 min
May 4, 3:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Carroll	36 min
May 4, 3:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Benton	37 min
May 4, 3:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Benton	31 min
May 4, 4:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Madison	42 min
May 4, 4:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	40 min
May 4, 5:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Madison	40 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.