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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 374, NWS Tulsa, OK

September 12, 2026Madison County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 12, 2026, 2:38 PM CDT for Madison County, 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: Sep 12, 2026, 2:38 PM CDT (19:38 UTC)
Expired: Sep 12, 2026, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Madison County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 344 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: 643 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -307 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1693 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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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 12, 1:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 1:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 12, 1:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 12, 12:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 12, 12:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 12, 1:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 12, 2:01 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 12, 2:04 PM CDT, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 12, 2:29 PM CDT, 9 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
Sep 11, 7:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	30 min
Sep 11, 7:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	36 min
Sep 11, 11:18 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	TSA	Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh, Muskogee and 5 more	20 hr
Sep 12, 11:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	25 min
Sep 12, 11:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa, Wagoner	16 min
Sep 12, 11:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek	27 min
Sep 12, 11:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	22 min
Sep 12, 11:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Wagoner	18 min
Sep 12, 11:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okmulgee	32 min
Sep 12, 12:00 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	TSA	Choctaw, Craig, Creek, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 15 more	31 hr
Sep 12, 12:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Muskogee	30 min
Sep 12, 12:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Wagoner	30 min
Sep 12, 12:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Wagoner	36 min
Sep 12, 1:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	34 min
Sep 12, 1:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Ottawa	37 min
Sep 12, 2:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh	29 min
Sep 12, 2:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh, Pittsburg	39 min
Sep 12, 2:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell	31 min
Sep 12, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg	36 min
Sep 12, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	27 min
Sep 12, 2:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell	24 min
Sep 12, 3:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	30 min
Sep 12, 3:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	29 min
Sep 12, 3:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Ottawa	24 min
Sep 12, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	36 min
Sep 12, 3:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	25 min
Sep 12, 3:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Ottawa	47 min
Sep 12, 4:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	29 min
Sep 12, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Pushmataha	39 min
Sep 12, 4:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Ottawa	31 min
Sep 12, 4:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	37 min
Sep 12, 4:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Ottawa	25 min
Sep 12, 4:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	27 min
Sep 12, 5:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	30 min
Sep 12, 5:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw	32 min
Sep 12, 11:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Madison	14 min
Sep 12, 1:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll, Madison	32 min
Sep 12, 1:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll, Madison	47 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.