Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 389, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1998, 3:16 PM CDT for Carroll County, Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 44 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
- Jul 25, 1998, 3:16 PM CDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1998, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carroll County, AR, Madison County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -240 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 705 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 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 252016 RRA SVRTUL ARC015-087-252100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 316 PM CDT SAT JUL 25 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS NORTHERN MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 315 PM...RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG HIGHWAY 412 NEAR OLD ALABAM...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... METALTON...RUDD...OSAGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH.
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 Jul 25, 9:48 AM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 9:48 AM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before
FPUS3 KTUL 251448 AFDTUL EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 948 AM CDT SAT JUL 25 1998 OB FROM KS CONVECTION CONTS TO PUSH SOUTH INTO NE OK. SCT MID CLDS DEVELOPING AHEAD OF OB IN TUL AREA. COOL AIR NOT AS DEEP AS YEST BEHIND OB AND CLD CVR ALSO IS CONSIDERABLY LESS. CUD STILL SEE AN ELEVATED SHOWER OR TWO GET GOING ALONG KS BORDER YET THIS MORN...BUT DOESNT LUK LIKE SHOWERS WILL BE AS WIDESPREAD AS YEST. WILL UPDATE ZNS TO REWORD WINDS WITH N WINDS BECOMING S THIS AFTERNOON FROM TUL NORTHWARD. OUN/FWD SOUNDINGS ARE NEARLY IDENTICAL TO YEST...SO TMPS IN SRN ZNS WILL BE SIMILAR AND GOING FCST LUKS HOT ENUF. WILL LEAVE MENTION OF ISO AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS OVR FA...MAINLY FOR NE OK THRU EARLY AFTERNOON AND OVR SE OK AND NW ARK LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVE. /13 .TUL... OK...HEAT ADVISORY FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR ZONES OKZ049...OKZ053... OKZ065...OKZ071...OKZ073>075. AR...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 25, 2:43 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
143 PM CST SAT JUL 25 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0745 PM MCALESTER OK WIND DAMAGE
07/24/98 PITTSBURG SEVERAL TREES BLOWN DOWN
AND PRIVACY FENCES BLOWN
OVER BY APPARENT THUNDERSTORM
DOWNBURST ON NORTH SIDE OF
MCALESTER.Local storm report, Jul 25, 2:43 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
143 PM CST SAT JUL 25 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0745 PM MCALESTER OK WIND DAMAGE
07/24/98 PITTSBURG SEVERAL TREES BLOWN DOWN
AND PRIVACY FENCES BLOWN
OVER BY APPARENT THUNDERSTORM
DOWNBURST ON NORTH SIDE OF
MCALESTER.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.