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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 500, NWS Tulsa, OK

November 30, 1998Washington County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 30, 1998, 12:40 AM CST for Washington County, Arkansas. It was in force for 50 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: Nov 30, 1998, 12:40 AM CST (06:40 UTC)
Expired: Nov 30, 1998, 1:30 AM CST
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Washington County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:43 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
Nov 30, 12:40 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Springdale, AR	A large tree was blown onto the roof of a home on Rustic Drive near the small community of Little Flock.

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 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 109 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1207 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

863 
WUUS54 KTSA 300641 RRA
SVRTUL
ARC047-087-143-300730-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1240 AM CST MON NOV 30 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
     FRANKLIN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
     MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
     SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 130 AM CST

* AT 1239 AM CST SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
  EXTENDING FROM 18 MILES WEST OF BRANCH TO 9 MILES WEST OF FERN TO
  16 MILES NORTH OF BRENTWOOD...MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES PER HOUR.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...BRENTWOOD...BLACKBURN...
  WINSLOW...JAPTON...WITTER...AURORA...PETTIGREW...ST PAUL...
  CASS...FERN...BRANCH AND OZARK

STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

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 Nov 29, 8:45 PM CST, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 29, 8:45 PM CST, 3 hours 55 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
845 PM CST SUN NOV 29 1998

SATELLITE LOOP INDICATES UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM CONTINUING TO MOVE
RAPIDLY EASTWARD THIS EVENING.  PRECIPITATION BAND HAS ORGANIZED INTO
A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WHICH HAS BEEN MOVING EASTWARD AROUND 35 MPH.
 ACTIVITY HAS SPREAD EASTWARD FASTER THAN INDICATED BY THE EARLIER
MODELS...SO WILL UPDATE TO ADJUST TIMING OF THE ONSET OF
PR^ECIPITATION TONIGHT.  OTHERWISE AFTERNOON FORECAST LOOKS GOOD AND
WILL MAKE ONLY MINOR TWEAKS IF ANY ON UPDATE PACKAGE WHICH WILL BE
RELEASTED SHORTLY AFTER 03Z.

FCSTID = 11

.TUL...
OK...NONE.
AR...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 30, 12:25 AM CST, 15 minutes before

STORM REPORT...CORRECTED TIMES TO CST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1225 AM CST MON NOV 30 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1145 PM    2 S SALLISAW              OK   65 MPH TSTM GUST
11/29/98   SEQUOYAH                       MEASURED BY OKLAHOMA
                                          MESONETWORK

Local storm report, Nov 30, 12:25 AM CST, 15 minutes before

STORM REPORT...CORRECTED TIMES TO CST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1225 AM CST MON NOV 30 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1145 PM    2 S SALLISAW              OK   65 MPH TSTM GUST
11/29/98   SEQUOYAH                       MEASURED BY OKLAHOMA
                                          MESONETWORK

Local storm report, Nov 30, 12:27 AM CST, 13 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1227 AM CST MON NOV 30 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0018 AM    FT SMITH                  AR   60 MPH TSTM GUST
11/30/98   SEBASTIAN                      REPORTED BY FORT SMITH PD

0018 AM    FT SMITH                  AR   .75 INCH HAIL
11/30/98   SEBASTIAN                      REPORTED BY FT SMITH PD

Local storm report, Nov 30, 12:27 AM CST, 13 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1227 AM CST MON NOV 30 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0018 AM    FT SMITH                  AR   60 MPH TSTM GUST
11/30/98   SEBASTIAN                      REPORTED BY FORT SMITH PD

0018 AM    FT SMITH                  AR   .75 INCH HAIL
11/30/98   SEBASTIAN                      REPORTED BY FT SMITH PD

Local storm report, Nov 30, 12:29 AM CST, 11 minutes before

STORM REPORT...CORRECTED TIMES TO CST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1229 AM CST MON NOV 30 1998

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1145 PM    2 S SALLISAW              OK   65 MPH TSTM GUST
11/29/98   SEQUOYAH                       MEASURED BY OKLAHOMA
                                          MESONETWORK

Local storm report, Nov 30, 12:30 AM CST, 10 minutes before

STORM REPORT...CORRECTED TIMES TO CST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1230 AM CST MON NOV 30 1998

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0018 AM    FT SMITH                  AR   60 MPH TSTM GUST
11/30/98   SEBASTIAN                      REPORTED BY FORT SMITH PD

0018 AM    FT SMITH                  AR   .75 INCH HAIL
11/30/98   SEBASTIAN                      REPORTED BY FT SMITH PD

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 30, 12:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford	48 min
Nov 30, 12:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	51 min
Nov 30, 12:40 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin, Madison	50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1998 Every 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.