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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 8, 1998Sebastian County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1998, 11:24 PM CDT for Sebastian County, Arkansas. It was in force for 36 min. 4 reports 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: Jun 8, 1998, 11:24 PM CDT (04:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1998, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Sebastian County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:26 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
Jun 8, 11:33 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Dayton, AR	Several trees were blown down
Jun 8, 11:33 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Midland, AR	Several large tree limbs were blown down
Jun 8, 11:52 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenwood, AR	Business signs were blown down in Greenwood
Jun 9, 12:01 AM CDT	Tornado F0	Midland, 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 8, 11:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 194 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 554 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 525 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 624 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 090424 RRA
TORTUL
ARC131-090500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1124 PM CDT MON JUN 8 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  SEBASTIAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 1200 AM CDT

* AT 1124 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 1 MILE SOUTH OF HACKETT. A
  TORNADO COULD FORM AT ANY TIME AS THIS STORM MOVES EAST AT 30 MPH

* THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...
  HACKETT
  EXCELSIOR
  GREENWOOD
  MILLTOWN

NIGHTTIME TORNADOES ARE ESCPECIALLY DANGEROUS - TAKE SHELTER NOW!
DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING - IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO
GET TO A SAFE PLACE.

THE SAFEST PLACE IN A TORNADO IS BELOW GROUND. IF A BASEMENT OR
STORM CELLAR IS NOT AVAILABLE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR. GET UNDER SOMETHING STURDY AND USE BLANKETS AND
PILLOWS TO PROTECT YOUR HEAD AND BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS. AVOID
WINDOWS AND LARGE ROOMS. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND AUTOMOBILES FOR
MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AS A LAST RESORT TAKE COVER IN A DITCH.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 10:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Sebastian	46 min
Jun 8, 11:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Sebastian	37 min
Jun 9, 12:16 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Sebastian	2 hr
Jun 9, 12:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Washington	42 min
Jun 9, 1:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin	43 min
Jun 9, 2:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	48 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.