Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1990, 12:37 AM CDT for Crawford County, Arkansas. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 1990, 12:37 AM CDT (05:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1990, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crawford County, AR
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 151 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 626 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFSM 030539 SVRFSM ARC033-030645- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT SMITH AR 1237 AM CDT THU MAY 3 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT SMITH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST ARKANSAS ...CRAWFORD COUNTY AT 1237 FORT SMITH RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES WEST OF MOUNTAINBURB SOUTH TO FT SMITH. THE LINE WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 11:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 4 hr |
| May 2, 11:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Scott | 4 hr |
| May 3, 12:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Polk | 3 hr |
| May 3, 12:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Benton, Washington | 3 hr |
| May 3, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 66 min |
| May 3, 1:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin | 58 min |
| May 3, 1:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin, Logan, Scott, Sebastian | 57 min |
| May 3, 2:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Johnson | 56 min |
| May 3, 3:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Polk, Scott, Sebastian | 4 hr |
| May 3, 3:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Benton, Madison, Washington | 4 hr |
| May 3, 3:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin | 4 hr |
| May 3, 3:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Johnson, Logan | 4 hr |
| May 3, 7:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Madison | 3 hr |
| May 3, 7:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Johnson, Logan | 3 hr |
| May 3, 7:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Polk | 3 hr |
| May 3, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 57 min |
Nearby
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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.