Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 1996, 7:56 PM CST for Crawford County, Arkansas. It was in force for 49 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
- Mar 14, 1996, 7:56 PM CST (01:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 1996, 8:45 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crawford County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 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
- 93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1448 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 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 KTUL 150156 RRA SVRTUL ARC033-150245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 756 PM CST THU MAR 14 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS ...NORTHERN AND CENTRAL CRAWFORD COUNTY AT 756 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN ADAIR COUNTY OKLAHOMA MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH TOWARD NORTHERN CRAWFORD COUNTY ARKANSAS. MOUNTAINBURG AND NATURAL DAM ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.l 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.
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 Mar 14, 4:22 PM CST, 3 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 4:22 PM CST, 3 hours 34 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 420 PM CST THU MAR 14 1996 MODELS NOT IN GREAT AGREEMENT. THUS...HAVE GONE WITH A COMPROMISE AND A LOOK AT WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW. SAT PICS SHOW DRY SLOT HAS MOVED ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA WITH STRONG/SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON ITS NOSE OVER EXTREME NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FORMED TO THE WEST IN THE AREA OF A MOISTURE CONVERGENCE MAXIMUM SEEN IN MESONET. PER SPC'S TORNADO WATCH MAY SEE ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS FORM THIS EVENING. MEANWHILE...A COLD FRONT WILL SAG SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT SHIFTING WINDS TO THE NORTH AND ENDING THE THUNDERSTORM CHANCES FOR THE TIME BEING. THIS ENDING MAY NOT BE LONG AS THE COLD FRONT WASHES OUT TOMORROW OR BECOMES A STATIONARY BOUNDARY ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST U.S. AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS AS THE AVN SUGGESTS. ANYWAY... A SERIES OF SHORTWAVES ARE KICKED OUT OF THE DESERT SOUTHWEST IN A STREAMWISE FASHION. ONE SUCH SHORTWAVE MAY BRING THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA LATE TOMORROW NIGHT AS IS SUGGESTED BY STRONG VV'S CROSSING THE AREA FROM SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA TO ARKANSAS BY THE AVN. THE AVN HAS ANOTHER SUCH SHORTWAVE MOVE INTO THE AREA LATER ON SATURDAY. THUS...HAVE INCLUDED CHANCE POPS BOTH PERIODS. HAVE KEPT POPS RELATIVELY LOW AS THE DEPTH AND EXTENT OF INSTABILITY AND MOISTURE MAY BE A PROBLEM. TUL 048/067 050/064 042 5033 FSM 053/073 047/064 045 3033 MLC 053/073 050/065 045x 3033 BVO 045/063 049/060 040 5033 FYV 051/067 045/060 040 5033 IDB 058/075 057/070 048 2033 BYV 051/067 043/060 038 5033 .TUL... OK...NONE. AR...NONE. ABBAS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 9:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 42 min |
| Mar 14, 10:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 48 min |
| Mar 14, 10:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll | 60 min |
| Mar 14, 10:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 63 min |
| Mar 14, 11:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison | 68 min |
| Mar 14, 11:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll | 61 min |
| Mar 15, 12:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison | 33 min |
| Mar 15, 12:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 64 min |
| Mar 15, 12:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison | 47 min |
| Mar 15, 1:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 53 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
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.