Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 1996, 9:33 PM CST for Benton County, Arkansas. It was in force for 42 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 14, 1996, 9:33 PM CST (03:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 1996, 10:15 PM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Benton County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 9:45 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Pea Ridge, AR | |
| Mar 14, 10:15 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Sulphur Springs, AR |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 74 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 WUUS1 KTUL 150334 RRA SVRTUL ARC007-150415- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 933 PM CST THU MAR 14 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS ...BENTON COUNTY AT 933 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CENTERED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BENTONVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. BENTONVILLE AND ROGERS ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE OVER FAR NORTHWESTERN BENTON COUNTY. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. 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, 9:03 PM CST, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 9:03 PM CST, 30 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 900 PM CST THU MAR 14 1996 QUITE AN ACTIVE NGT ACRS FA WITH PLENTY OF SVR WX. SUPERCELL THAT MOVD THRU TULSA COUNTY EARLY THIS EVNG HS FINALLY MOVD OFF TO EAST OF FA...BUT STG/SVR TSTMS RMN ACTIVE OVR NRN AND NERN PART OF FA. SFC LO LCTD VCNTY OF HUGHES...PITTSBURG...MCINTOSH COUNTIES WITH CDFNT DRAPED ACRS THE AREA. DRYLN ALSO EVIDENT ON MESONET DATA AND IR SATL PICS FRM LO SWRD INTO TX. LO WL CONT TO MOV ON TO THE EAST WITH CDFNT TO CONT TO SAG SEWRD ACRS THE AREA OVRNGT. WL MAKE 1ST PD CHGS BASED ON RADAR TRENDS AND XPCTD MVMNT OF LO/CDFNT/DRYLN. NO CHGS TO LATER PDS WITH LTL TIME TO LOOK AT MUC~H NEW DATA. ...04... .TUL... OK...NONE. AR...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 7:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford | 49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.