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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 309, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 26, 2024Carroll County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2024, 6:40 PM CDT for Carroll County, Arkansas. It was in force for 25 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 26, 2024, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2024, 7:05 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Carroll County, AR

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 26, 3:28 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 505 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -252 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1003 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 368 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 742 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 12.9

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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 26, 6:05 PM CDT, 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 6:05 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 4:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 5:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 5:41 PM CDT, 59 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 5:51 PM CDT, 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 6:11 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 6:23 PM CDT, 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 26, 6:26 PM CDT, 14 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 25, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	62 min
May 25, 8:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	60 min
May 25, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	34 min
May 25, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	67 min
May 25, 9:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	42 min
May 25, 10:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	42 min
May 25, 10:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner, Washington	39 min
May 25, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Craig, Mayes, Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Washington	49 min
May 25, 11:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Mayes, Rogers	51 min
May 26, 12:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw	45 min
May 26, 12:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	43 min
May 26, 12:11 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TSA	Delaware, Mayes	49 min
May 26, 12:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig, Ottawa	24 min
May 26, 12:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	34 min
May 26, 12:29 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage	46 min
May 26, 12:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	26 min
May 26, 12:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Sequoyah	65 min
May 26, 12:42 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Delaware	48 min
May 26, 12:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Ottawa	17 min
May 26, 1:03 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Nowata, Osage, Washington	42 min
May 26, 1:35 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Craig, Nowata	15 min
May 26, 1:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Wagoner	29 min
May 26, 1:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sequoyah	35 min
May 26, 1:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Craig, Nowata	41 min
May 26, 2:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Ottawa	50 min
May 26, 2:53 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Craig, Ottawa	3 hr
May 26, 2:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Delaware, Ottawa	9 min
May 26, 2:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig, Nowata	36 min
May 26, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Nowata	39 min
May 26, 3:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig	45 min
May 26, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Ottawa	48 min
May 26, 1:26 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton	49 min
May 26, 2:04 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Madison	41 min
May 26, 2:23 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Benton	3 hr
May 26, 2:38 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Carroll, Madison	41 min
May 26, 3:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Madison	14 min
May 26, 3:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Carroll	24 min
May 26, 3:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Madison	65 min
May 26, 3:31 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll	3 hr
May 26, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	50 min
May 26, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll	48 min
May 26, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll	32 min
May 26, 6:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Carroll	49 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.