Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 336, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 25, 1997, 3:29 PM CDT for Sebastian County, Arkansas. It was in force for 46 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
- Oct 25, 1997, 3:29 PM CDT (20:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 1997, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sebastian County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 4:04 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Ft Smith, AR | |
| Oct 25, 4:05 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Nr Hackett, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 500 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 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 252031 RRA SVRTUL ARC131-252115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 329 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS ...SEBASTIAN COUNTY AT 327 PM...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SEVERAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN LEFLORE COUNTY GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM FANSHAWE TO MONROE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL AFFECT FT. SMITH..BONANZA..HACKETT AND SLAYTONVILLE. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.
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 Oct 25, 11:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 25, 11:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before
FPUS3 KTUL 251600 AFDTUL EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1100 AM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997 UPDATED TO REMOVE FOG FROM NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AND TO REMOVE REFERENCES TO THIS AFTERNOON IN ALL ZONES. PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE INCREASED POPS AS KTLX RADAR SHOWS PLENTY ACTIVITY EITHER INTO OR HEADED INTO OUR WESTERN ZONES. DO HAVE HIGH POPS SO FORECAST NOT TOO BAD. LEFT OUT SKY CONDITION WITH HIGH POPS DUE TO QUIRK IN IFP AND THE UNCERTAINTY THAT THE CLOUDS MAY BREAK IN SOME PLACES DURING THE AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES WISE KEPT THINGS PRETTY MUCH AS IS ALTHOUGH DID LOWER A FEW DEGREES IN THE SOUTH. .TUL... OK...NONE. AR...NONE. ABBAS
In the hours before
Local storm report, Oct 25, 2:36 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
237 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0225 PM WILBURTON OK 1 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 LATIMER
0229 PM WILBURTON OK .75 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 LATIMERLocal storm report, Oct 25, 2:37 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
237 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0225 PM WILBURTON OK 1 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 LATIMER
0229 PM WILBURTON OK .75 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 LATIMERLocal storm report, Oct 25, 2:41 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
242 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0230 PM 3 SE WILBURTON OK WIND DAMAGE
10/25/97 LATIMER TREES WERE REPORTED DOWN 3
SE OF WILBURTONLocal storm report, Oct 25, 2:42 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
242 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0230 PM 3 SE WILBURTON OK WIND DAMAGE
10/25/97 LATIMER TREES WERE REPORTED DOWN 3
SE OF WILBURTONLocal storm report, Oct 25, 2:55 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
256 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0247 PM ( MUSKOGEE OK 1.75 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 MUSKOGEELocal storm report, Oct 25, 2:56 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
256 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0247 PM MUSKOGEE OK 1.75 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 MUSKOGEEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford | 25 min |
| Oct 25, 4:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 34 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.