Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 457, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 5, 1998, 2:13 PM CDT for Crawford County, Arkansas. It was in force for 32 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
- Oct 5, 1998, 2:13 PM CDT (19:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 5, 1998, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crawford County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 263 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 570 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 323 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 352 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
803 WUUS54 KTSA 051912 RRA SVRTUL ARC033-051945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 213 PM CDT MON OCT 5 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CRAWFORD IN WESTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 245 PM CDT * AT 212 PM CDT... DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF OZARK MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN MOSTLY IN RURAL AREAS. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THIS STORM IS DIME SIZE HAIL OR LARGER. THE HAIL MAY CAUSE SOME VEHICLE OR ROOF DAMAGE. STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THE STORM. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...GO INDOORS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. 25/206
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 5, 10:10 AM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 5, 10:10 AM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1010 AM CDT MON OCT 5 1998 HEAVY RAIN HAS SHIFTED SOUTHEAST AND IS STILL MAKING PROGRESS EASTWARD. HOWEVER BIG PIECE OF ENERGY STILL TO ROUND BASE OF UPPER TROF AND MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SURFACE COLD FRONT WAS EXTENDED FROM NEAR MIAMI TO OKEMAH BUT 850 MB TROF IS STILL NORTHWEST OF THE FORECAST AREA. SCATTERED SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE NORTHEAST OVER NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA WITH MAIN AREAS OF THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAINS SOUTHEAST OF CURRENT POSITION OF SURFACE COLD FRONT. DUE TO CURRENT RUNOFF AND FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS IN EFFECT WON'T CANCEL ANY OF THE FFA AT THIS TIME...BUT THREAT WILL HAVE SHIFTED INTO SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON...SO PLAN ON SHAVING OFF NORTHWEST PART OF WATCH EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. WILL UPDATE ZONES TO LOWER MAXES BEHIND COLD FRONT WHERE CLOUDS SCATTERED SHOWERS WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES FROM RISING MUCH. TEMPERATURES SHOULD BE STEADY OR FALL WITH PRECIP OVER THE REST OF THE AREA...EXCEPT NEAR RED RIVER WHERE SUNSHINE COULD LET TEMPS WARM INTO MID 80S. THREAT FOR SEVERE SHOULD BE LIMITED TO THAT AREA...BUT WILL HAVE TO MONITOR LEADING EDGE OF STORMS FOR POSSIBLE INTENSIFICATION. UPDATED ZONES SHOULD BE OUT BY 11AM. .TUL... OK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TODAY FOR ZONES OKZ049...OKZ053>077. AR...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TODAY FOR ZONES ,ARZ001>002...ARZ010>011... ARZ019>020...ARZ029.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 5, 8:58 AM CDT, 5 hours 15 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-060>076-051410- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 858 AM CDT MON OCT 5 1998 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 866 THAT WAS ISSUED EARLY THIS MORNING FOR MOST OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS HAS BEEN CANCELLED. AT 855 AM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AND EASTERN OKLAHOMA. FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT ASSOCIATED WITH THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...HOWEVER THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED OVER THE AREA AND THE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 2:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 48 min |
| Oct 5, 2:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 49 min |
| Oct 5, 3:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 49 min |
| Oct 5, 4:07 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Benton | 23 min |
| Oct 5, 4:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Benton | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 7:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Benton | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 10:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Benton, Washington | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 1:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Benton, Washington | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 2:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison, Washington | 66 min |
| Oct 5, 3:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Carroll, Madison | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 3:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Franklin, Sebastian | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll, Madison | 51 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.