Severe Thunderstorm Warning 459, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

Oct 5, 1998, 3:24 PM CDT (20:24 UTC)

Expired

Oct 5, 1998, 4:15 PM CDT

In force

51 min

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Carroll County, AR, Madison County, 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.

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ARC015-087-052115-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
324 PM CDT MON OCT 5 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
     CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
     MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 415 PM CDT

* AT 324 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE
  EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PETTIGREW TO WITTER TO 3 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF HINDSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES PER HOUR.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...  CLIFTY...
  ALABAM...MARBLE...WITTER...BOSTON...FORUM...HINDSVILLE...
  KINGSTON...AURORA...PETTIGREW...HUNTSVILLE...URBANETTE...RULE...
  CARROLLTON...RUDD...METALTON...OAK GROVE...GREEN FOREST...OSAGE AND
  BERRYVILLE

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE
EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.

LAT...LON 3616 9392 3590 9372 3564 9375 3612 9310
          3638 9306 3664 9326

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 5, 10:10 AM CDT, 5 hours 14 minutes earlier.

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.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.