Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 1998, 5:40 PM CDT for Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 50 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
- May 2, 1998, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 1998, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 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
- 98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1336 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
319 WUUS54 KTSA 022242 RRA SVRTUL ARC087-022330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 540 PM CDT SAT MAY 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN MADISON COUNTY - NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 539 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF ST. PAUL...MOVING EAST- SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... ST. PAUL PETTIGREW HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH...TAKE COVER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM LIGHTNING STAY OFF THE PHONE AND DONT USE HAND HELD ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. MOTORISTS SHOULD NEVER DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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 May 2, 3:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 2, 3:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
FPUS3 KTUL 022021 AFDTUL EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 320 PM CDT SAT MAY 2 1998 LOOKS LIKE A FEW HRS OF ACTIVE WX THRU EARLY THIS EVENING...THEN WX SHLD BE RATHER QUIET TILL NXT SYSTM APPRCHED MID-WEEK. PREFNTL TROF HAS PUSHED THRU THE TUL AREA THIS AFTN AND STRETCHES FROM NEAR JAY IN DELAWARE COUNTY TO NEAR OKEMAH IN OKFUSKEE COUNTY AT 1930Z. MAIN CDFNT LAGGING A LTL BHND. AHD OF THE TROF TEMPS HAVE WARMED TO ARND 80 THIS AFTN WITH DWEPTS MAINLY IN THE U50S...EVEN A FEW L60S ALNG THE ARKANSAS RVR VALLEY IN E-CNTL OK. HAVE HAD HI-BASED TSRA/SHRA MOVING ACRS THE AREA THRU THE DAY...BUT STRONGER STORMS NOW EVIDENT ON KINX OVR SRN MO CLOSER TO UPR SUPPORT AS S/WV MOVES SEWRD FRM IA INTO NRN MO. XPCT TO SEE ADNTL STORMS FIRE OVR THE NXT HR OR TWO ON DOWN INTO ERN OK ALNG AND AHD OF THE SFC BNDRY...THEN MOVE ON OFF TO THE EAST OF THE AREA BY EARLY THIS EVENING. ADDITIONAL STORMS XPCTD TO DVLP TO THE SOUTH OF FA WITH SFC LO LOCATED NEAR ABI AND WRMFNT EXTENDING EWRD ACROSS NE TX. S/WV WILL CONT TO MOVE DOWN ACROSS MO DURING THE NGT...AND THEN TO THE EAST ON SUN. AREA WILL RMN IN GENRL NW FLOW THEN FOR THE NXT FEW DAYS WITH SFC HI PRES BUILDING OVR THE AREA. WILL HANG ON TO A FEW CLDS INTO SUNDAY OVR THE NW AR ZONES AND FAR NE OK ZONES...CLOSEST TO UPR SYSTM. OTHRWISE PLENTY OF SUNSHINE NXT FEW DAYS WITH TEMPS NEAR OR A LTL BELOW NORM. NXT SYSTM TO AFFECT AREA ARND TUE/WED. FCSTID = 4 TUL 50 74 51 78 / 10 0 0 0 FSM 50 73 48 78 / 20 0 0 0 MLC 51 76 50 79 / 10 0 0 0 BVO 47 74 48 78 / 10 0 0 0 FYV 45 71 44 75 / 20 0 0 0 IDB 51 77 49 80 / 40 0 0 0 BYV 44 70 44 74 / 20 0 0 0 MIO 46 72 47 77 / 20 0 0 0 MKO 50 74 50 78 / 10 0 0 0 F10 50 74 50 78 / 10 0 0 0 HHW 51 78 49 80 / 40 0 0 0 .TUL... OK...NONE. AR...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 2, 1:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-031200- EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 100 PM CDT SAT MAY 2 1998 A FEW SEVERE THUNDERST
Special weather statement, May 2, 1:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-031200- EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 100 PM CDT SAT MAY 2 1998 A FEW SEVERE THUNDERST
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford | 54 min |
| May 2, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 61 min |
| May 2, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 52 min |
| May 2, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin | 61 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.