Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1990, 6:03 PM CDT for Washington County, Arkansas. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 1990, 6:03 PM CDT (23:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1990, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington 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 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 707 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 397 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 341 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 032306 SVRFSM ARC143-040000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT SMITH AR 603 PM CDT THU MAY 3 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT SMITH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS ...WASHINGTON COUNTY AT 604 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF STILLWELL OKLAHOMA. THE STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. A TORNADO WAS REPORTED EARLIER WITH THIS STORM IN SEQUOYAH COUNTY OKLAHOMA. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCEG TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 3, 2:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
OKC001-021-032030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 238 PM CDT THU MAY 3 1990 REPORTS ARE CIRCULATING THAT LAKE FRANCIS, ON THE ILLINOIS RIVER AT WATTS, BEGAN OVERFLOWING AND PART OF THE CONCRETE SPILLWAY HAS BROKEN AWAY. ED FITE OF THE OKLAHOMA SCENIC RIVERS COMMISSION REPORTS THAT LAKE FRANCIS IS IN NO IMMEDIATE DANGER OF DETERIORATION. SOME FLOODING IS OCCURRING ALONG THE ILLINOIS RIVER OVER PARTS OF ADAIR AND CHEROKEE COUNTY. THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE MESSAGE FOR THE ADAIR AND CHEROKEE COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE. CHEROKEE AND ADIAR COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE OFFICIALS ARE ADVISING PEOPLE ALONG THE ILLINOIS RIVER BELOW LAKE FRANCIS TO TAKE THE SAME ACTIONS AS THOSE DUERING THE 1986 FLOOD.
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, 12:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford | 68 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 |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990
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.