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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 5, 2026Crawford County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Mar 5, 2026, 1:13 AM CST for Crawford County, Arkansas. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 5, 2026, 1:13 AM CST (07:13 UTC)
Expired: Mar 5, 2026, 1:45 AM CST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 40

County Crawford County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 530 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 209 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 211 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Mar 5, 12:34 AM CST, 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 5, 12:34 AM CST, 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 4, 4:59 PM CST, 8 hours 14 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Tulsa OK
459 PM CST Wed Mar 4 2026

ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-052300-
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-
459 PM CST Wed Mar 4 2026

This Outlook is for Northwest and West Central Arkansas as well as
much of Eastern Oklahoma.

.DAY ONE...This Evening and Tonight.
TORNADO.
	RISK...Limited.
	AREA...Far Southeast Oklahoma into West Central Arkansas.
	ONSET...Ongoing.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.
	RISK...Elevated.
	AREA...Southeast Oklahoma and Northwest Arkansas.
	ONSET...Ongoing.

FLASH FLOOD.
	RISK...Limited.
	AREA...Southeast Oklahoma and Northwest Arkansas.
	ONSET...Ongoing.

HEAVY RAIN.
	RISK...Elevated.
	AREA...Southeast and East Central Oklahoma as well as Northwest
		    Arkansas.
	ONSET...Ongoing.

DISCUSSION...
Thunderstorms will continue to develop and move northeast across
southeast and east central Oklahoma as well as northwest Arkansas
into the overnight hours east and southeast of a nearly stalled
frontal boundary over the region. Both surface and elevated based
instability will aid in increasing severe potentials through late
evening over these same locations. Large hail and damaging winds
are the primary severe threats, along with a limited tornado
potential. Severe potentials should begin to weaken after midnight
tonight as instability decreases. North of the frontal boundary,
across northeast Oklahoma, chances for elevated showers and storms
remains possible through tonight.

Also, with the thunderstorm activity will be a heavy rain threat,
which could create localized areas of flood concerns through
tonight. Additional rainfall of a half inch to locally in excess
of two inches are forecast through tonight across southeast and
east central Oklahoma as well as northwest Arkansas.

SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT...
Activation of the Regional Spotter Network Likely.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday.
THURSDAY...Thunderstorm Potential...High Wind Potential.
FRIDAY...Severe Thunderstorm Potential...High Wind Potential...Heavy
		 Rain Potential.
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY...Thunderstorm Potential.
MONDAY...Thunderstorm Potential...High Wind Potential.
TUESDAY...Thunderstorm Potential...High Wind Potential...Heavy
		  Rain Potential.

EXTENDED DISCUSSION...
Showers and storms will linger into the day Thursday before
diminishing. Another round of thunderstorms is expected late
Thursday night and into Friday morning, focused across parts of
eastern Oklahoma. Friday afternoon into Friday night will feature
the highest threat for severe weather, with potential for large
hail, damaging winds, and a few tornadoes. Locally heavy rain will
be possible again on Friday into Friday night as well. Continue
to monitor forecasts through this week and have a severe weather
plan ready to go.

A low severe weather threat may extend into Saturday morning
across southeast Oklahoma before a cold front fully moves south
of the area. Low to medium thunderstorm chances and continued warm
conditions will continue Sunday into Monday, with better storm
chances returning by next Tuesday.

weather.gov/tulsa contains additional information.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 4, 10:53 PM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 5, 12:00 AM CST, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 5, 12:56 AM CST, 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 5, 1:13 AM CST, 0 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
Mar 4, 6:00 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer	30 min
Mar 4, 6:27 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Muskogee	33 min
Mar 4, 6:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Muskogee, Sequoyah	14 min
Mar 4, 6:43 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell	32 min
Mar 4, 6:57 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	48 min
Mar 4, 7:11 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sequoyah	34 min
Mar 4, 7:14 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	31 min
Mar 4, 7:36 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer	24 min
Mar 4, 8:26 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sequoyah	34 min
Mar 4, 9:44 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	31 min
Mar 4, 10:36 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Delaware	24 min
Mar 4, 10:40 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	35 min
Mar 4, 10:53 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	37 min
Mar 4, 11:12 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh	33 min
Mar 4, 11:37 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sequoyah	23 min
Mar 4, 11:52 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware	3 hr
Mar 5, 12:56 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sequoyah	34 min
Mar 5, 6:22 AM CST	River Flood Advisory	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware	8 hr
Mar 5, 6:41 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	4 hr
Mar 5, 7:29 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	31 min
Mar 5, 7:39 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	3 hr
Mar 5, 8:09 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	21 min
Mar 5, 8:37 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha	4 hr
Mar 5, 1:09 PM CST	River Flood Advisory	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware	35 hr
Mar 5, 1:09 PM CST	River Flood Advisory	TSA	Cherokee	47 hr
Mar 4, 8:43 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Benton	17 min
Mar 4, 9:01 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Carroll	29 min
Mar 4, 9:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	17 min
Mar 4, 9:31 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Crawford	29 min
Mar 4, 9:51 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Benton	3 hr
Mar 4, 10:59 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Washington	4 hr
Mar 5, 12:00 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	30 min
Mar 5, 1:47 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Franklin	43 min
Mar 5, 2:14 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Franklin	46 min
Mar 5, 2:15 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Carroll	3 hr

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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.