Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 274, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1998, 1:47 PM CDT for Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 28 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
- Jun 8, 1998, 1:47 PM CDT (18:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1998, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 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 18:48 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, 6.8 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1128 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 421 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 600 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
100 WUUS54 KTSA 081846 RRA SVRTUL ARC087-081915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 147 PM CDT MON JUN 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 215 PM CDT * AT 145 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF ST PAUL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... ST PAUL AURORA KINGSTON HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES 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 Jun 8, 10:45 AM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 10:45 AM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1045 AM CDT MON JUN 8 1998 WILL UPDATE ZONES BETWEEN 1130 AM AND NOON FOR PRECIPITATION TRENDS. MAY ALSO TWEEK TEMPERATURES AND WINDS SLIGHTLY SINCE CLOUD COVER HAS HINDERED MIXING. .TUL... OK...NONE. AR...NONE. ABBAS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 1:00 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-091200- EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 100 PM CDT MON JUN 8 1998 A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS MAINLY TO THE NORTH OF INTERSTATE 40. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS TO THE SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVED ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS MORNING AND EARLY THIS AFTERNOON IN RESPONSE TO AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE THAT WAS MOVING ACROSS KANSAS. IN THE WAKE OF THIS ACTIVITY SKIES REMAINED CLOUDY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WITH TEMPERATURES STILL IN THE 60S AND 70S. THIS HAS LIMITED THE INSTABILITY ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS...HOWEVER SOME SUNSHINE MAY RETURN BY LATER THIS AFTERNOON...WARMING TEMPERATURES AND HELPING THE ATMOSPHERE TO ONCE AGAIN DESTABILIZE. FURTHER TO THE WEST...A DRYLINE HAS BECOME WELL DEFINED FROM WESTERN KANSAS DOWN INTO THE EXTREME EASTERN PORTION OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. THE DRYLINE IS EXPECTED TO MOVE A LITTLE EASTWARD ON INTO FAR WESTERN OKLAHOMA DURING THE AFTERNOON. OVER WESTERN OKLAHOMA...PARTLY SUNNY TO MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES HAVE WARMED TEMPERATURES WELL INTO THE 80S AND THE ATMOSPHERE HAS BECOMING INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE. AS TEMPERATURES CONTINUE TO WARM DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON...THE DRYLINE IS EXPECTED TO BECOME THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP ALONG THE DRYLINE WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO QUICKLY BECOME SEVERE AS THEY MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AND APPROACH EASTERN OKLAHOMA LATER THIS EVENING...THEN EVENTUALLY REACHING NORTHWEST ARKANSAS IF THEY HOLD TOGETHER. IF STORMS CAN DEVELOP DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING...THEY WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLY EVEN TORNADOES GIVEN THE FAVORABLE WIND PROFILES. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF TODAY AND BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION.
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.