Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1998, 1:34 PM CST for Carroll County, Arkansas. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report 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 5, 1998, 1:34 PM CST (19:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1998, 2:20 PM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carroll County, AR
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 1:35 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Eureka Spgs, 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 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 586 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 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 051934 RRA SVRTUL ARC015-052020- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 134 PM CST THU MAR 5 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA OK HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 220 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS ...CARROLL COUNTY AT 132 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF METALTON. ANOTHER INTENSIFYING THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES WEST OF BERRYVILLE. THE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. BERRYVILLE...METALTON...RUDD AND OSAGE ARE IN THE PATHS OF THESE STORMS. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES 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 DVRIVE ONTO A FLOODED ROAD.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 12:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 49 min |
| Mar 5, 12:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison | 46 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.