An isolated severe thunderstorm occurred during the late morning hours in northwest Arkansas.
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The episode as NWS TSA wrote it up.
An isolated severe thunderstorm occurred during the late morning hours in northwest Arkansas.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 22, 9:43 AM CST, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1043 AM CDT SUN JUN 22 2008 .DISCUSSION... REMNANTS OF A THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX CURRENTLY MOVING ACROSS EXTREME NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND INTO NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS MORNING. AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY ASSOCIATED WITH THIS DECAYING COMPLEX IS CURRENTLY NEAR A KBVO-KSLG LINE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DISSIPATE WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. HOWEVER...ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY AS TEMPERATURES CLIMB INTO THE MID 80S TO LOWER 90S ACROSS THE AREA. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH CAPE VALUES APPROACHING 300O J/KG. THE MAIN CONCERN WILL DOWNBURST THUNDERSTORM WINDS OF AROUND 70 MPH. THIS ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO DIMINISH AFTER SUNSET. ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT ACROSS THE AREA AS THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP OVER KANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND FORM INTO AN MCS OVERNIGHT AS THE LOW LEVEL JET INTENSIFIES. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE AS WELL WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS A CONCERN. HAVE MADE SOME CHANGES TO THE POPS...SKY...TEMP...AND QPF GRIDS FOR THIS AFTERNOON TO REFLECT CURRENT TRENDS AND THE LATEST MODEL DATA. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... TUL 93 69 87 69 / 30 30 20 10 FSM 92 65 87 66 / 30 20 30 10 MLC 93 65 89 70 / 20 20 20 0 BVO 93 65 87 66 / 20 40 30 20 FYV 87 60 81 63 / 40 40 60 10 BYV 85 63 82 63 / 40 40 60 10 MKO 90 65 87 67 / 30 30 20 10 MIO 86 64 85 66 / 20 50 50 20 F10 91 65 87 69 / 20 20 20 10 HHW 93 65 93 69 / 10 10 10 0 && .TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. AR...NONE. && SHORT TERM...10 LONG TERM....15
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 812 AM CDT SUN JUN 22 2008 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-231000- 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- 812 AM CDT SUN JUN 22 2008 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...MAINLY NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...THIS AFTERNOON. DISCUSSION... A DECAYING THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX WILL MOVE INTO PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS MORNING. THIS ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO DIMINISH BY LATE MORNING. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON IN THE VICINITY OF ANY OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES AS DAYTIME HEATING DESTABILIZES THE AIRMASS. THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS THE MAIN CONCERN. HOWEVER...THE BEST CHANCES OF WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR TONIGHT AS A DEVELOPING LOW LEVEL JET IMPINGES ON A WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THE STORMS THAT RESULT WILL LIKELY TRACK SOUTHEAST INTO NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. SEVERE WEATHER WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE AS SHEAR WILL INCREASE AND SUFFICIENT ELEVATED INSTABILITY WILL BE IN PLACE. SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY BE ONGOING MONDAY MORNING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE. AFTER MONDAY MORNING...SMALL CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN IN THE FORECAST FOR PARTS OF THE AREA THROUGHOUT THE UPCOMING WEEK. AN UNSETTLED UPPER PATTERN AND STRONG SURFACE HEATING WILL DRIVE ANY STORMS THAT FORM. WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL TABULAR AND GRAPHICAL INFORMATION.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1140 AM CDT SUN JUN 22 2008
ARZ010-019-221745-
CRAWFORD AR-WASHINGTON AR-
1140 AM CDT SUN JUN 22 2008
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
WESTERN WASHINGTON AND NORTHWESTERN CRAWFORD
AT 1140 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
RHEA...MOVING SOUTH AT 22 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED
BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...UNIONTOWN...ODELL...LINCOLN...PRAIRIE
GROVE...BLACKBURN...HOGEYE...STRICKLER...MORROW...CLYDE...CANEHILL...
SUMMERS...RHEA...VINEY GROVE...CINCINNATI...WEDINGTON...
MOUNTAINBURG...CEDARVILLE...NATURAL DAM AND LEE CREEK.
THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO
50 MPH. RESIDENTS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE THE
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS UPGRADED TO A WARNING.
LAT...LON 3557 9414 3553 9445 3570 9448 3571 9449
3574 9448 3575 9449 3578 9449 3578 9450
3607 9453 3610 9431
TIME...MOT...LOC 1640Z 350DEG 19KT 3600 9440The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down numerous large tree limbs and damaged a chicken house.
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