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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 204, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 18, 20254 counties in Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2025, 1:08 PM CDT for 4 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 52 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 18, 2025, 1:08 PM CDT (18:08 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 2025, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Madison County, AR, Washington County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 1564 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 344 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 18, 12:42 PM CDT, 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 18, 12:42 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 18, 1:02 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 18, 12:31 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tulsa OK
1231 PM CDT Sun May 18 2025

ARZ019-OKZ069-072-181800-
Crawford AR-Adair OK-Sequoyah OK-
1231 PM CDT Sun May 18 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHWESTERN CRAWFORD...
NORTHEASTERN SEQUOYAH AND SOUTHEASTERN ADAIR COUNTIES THROUGH 100 PM
CDT...

At 1231 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated a strong thunderstorm 3 miles
west of Short, moving east at 30 mph.

HAZARD...Nickel size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible.

Locations in or near the path include...
Alma...                           Figure Five...
Lee Creek...                      Natural Dam...
Uniontown...                      Furry...
Cedarville...                     Short...
Rudy...                           Van Buren...

This includes the following highways,
 Interstate 40 in Arkansas between mile markers 11 and 13.
 Interstate 49 between mile markers 22 and 25.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3547 9462 3562 9466 3576 9433 3576 9429
      3548 9420
TIME...MOT...LOC 1731Z 253DEG 27KT 3556 9454

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...<30 MPH

Local storm report, May 18, 12:53 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 18, 12:54 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 18, 12:56 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 18, 12:58 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 18, 1:07 PM CDT, 1 minute 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 17, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	38 min
May 17, 7:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh	34 min
May 17, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Pittsburg, Pushmataha	49 min
May 17, 7:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	33 min
May 17, 8:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw	42 min
May 17, 8:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	32 min
May 17, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw	29 min
May 17, 8:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Pittsburg, Pushmataha	4 hr
May 17, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg, Pushmataha	50 min
May 17, 8:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Atoka	15 min
May 17, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	16 min
May 17, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	37 min
May 17, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	19 min
May 17, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Pushmataha	19 min
May 17, 10:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Pushmataha	2 hr
May 17, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pawnee	35 min
May 17, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	41 min
May 17, 10:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okfuskee	23 min
May 17, 11:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	42 min
May 17, 11:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pawnee	49 min
May 17, 11:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okfuskee, Okmulgee	56 min
May 17, 11:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	54 min
May 17, 11:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Washington	15 min
May 17, 11:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okmulgee	37 min
May 17, 11:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee	37 min
May 18, 12:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	45 min
May 18, 12:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Sequoyah	42 min
May 18, 12:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek	67 min
May 18, 12:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Nowata	63 min
May 18, 1:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sequoyah	66 min
May 18, 1:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	44 min
May 18, 1:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner	47 min
May 18, 2:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	57 min
May 18, 2:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Cherokee	40 min
May 18, 2:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	51 min
May 18, 2:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg	48 min
May 18, 3:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	42 min
May 18, 3:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, LeFlore, McIntosh, Muskogee and 1 more	62 min
May 18, 3:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell	26 min
May 18, 3:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Pittsburg	31 min
May 18, 4:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore	26 min
May 18, 4:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, LeFlore, Sequoyah	49 min
May 18, 4:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	35 min
May 18, 4:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	33 min
May 18, 5:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer	32 min
May 18, 5:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	30 min
May 18, 6:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Mayes, Rogers	27 min
May 18, 7:05 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa	3 hr
May 18, 7:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	25 min
May 18, 7:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Rogers	35 min
May 18, 8:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Delaware	34 min
May 18, 8:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig	26 min
May 18, 8:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Delaware	23 min
May 18, 9:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Delaware	24 min
May 18, 11:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Delaware	27 min
May 18, 11:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Delaware	24 min
May 18, 11:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Wagoner	34 min
May 18, 11:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Cherokee	35 min
May 18, 11:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sequoyah	32 min
May 18, 11:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	23 min
May 18, 12:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pawnee	29 min
May 18, 12:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair	24 min
May 18, 12:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	50 min
May 18, 12:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Delaware	32 min
May 18, 12:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	30 min
May 18, 12:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee, Washington	42 min
May 18, 12:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	46 min
May 18, 12:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	41 min
May 18, 12:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington	39 min
May 18, 12:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington	39 min
May 18, 12:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	32 min
May 18, 1:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner	40 min
May 18, 1:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Washington	44 min
May 18, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers	16 min
May 18, 1:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	50 min
May 18, 2:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Mayes, Nowata, Rogers	41 min
May 18, 2:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Ottawa	39 min
May 18, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Delaware, Mayes	65 min
May 18, 3:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Delaware	46 min
May 18, 3:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig, Ottawa	55 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.