Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 1996, 12:58 AM CST for Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 47 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 15, 1996, 12:58 AM CST (06:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 1996, 1:45 AM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 99 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 150658 RRA SVRTUL ARC087-150745- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1258 AM CST FRI MAR 15 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS ...MADISON COUNTY AT 1258 AM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUNTSVILLE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE TOWN OF AURORA IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. DURING THE STORM MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM LIGHTNING DO NOT USE THE TELEPHONE OR HAND HELD ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES...UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR WATER ON ROADWAYS AND NEVER DRIVE ONTO A FLOODED ROAD. KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.
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, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 9:03 PM CST, 3 hours 55 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, 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, 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.