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Tornado Warning 84, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 1998, 12:15 AM CST for Sebastian County, Arkansas; LeFlore County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 45 min. 5 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
- Nov 10, 1998, 12:15 AM CST (06:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 1998, 1:00 AM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Sebastian County, AR, LeFlore County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:16 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 12:15 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Spiro, OK | A wood-frame building was destroyed on S. Cherry Street. Tree limbs were also scattered through east Spiro. |
| Nov 10, 12:20 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Panama, OK | The roof was blown off of a home near the power plant. In town, fences were blown over and marquee signs were pushed into the streets. At least 15 power poles were blown down throughout the Kiamichi Electric Cooperative's service area. |
| Nov 10, 12:20 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Poteau, OK | Trees and limbs were blown down in Poteau and throughout LeFlore County. |
| Nov 10, 12:35 AM CST | Tornado F1 | Pocola, OK | A tornado touched down about halfway between Pocola and Arkoma, moving to the northeast across the Arkansas state line. This tornado continued through the Fort Smith area, producing F1 damage and a 5-mile path length before finally lifting at the Fort Smith R |
| Nov 10, 12:36 AM CST | Tornado F1 | Ft Smith, AR | An F1 tornado touched down in extreme eastern Oklahoma between Arkoma and Pocola and then moved northeast into western Arkansas, moving across the southern part of Fort Smith and finally lifting at the Fort Smith Regional Airport (FSM). Along the way, many ho |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 11:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -341 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 505 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 565 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 11:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Washington | 51 min |
| Nov 10, 12:15 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Crawford | 45 min |
| Nov 10, 12:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Carroll, Madison | 55 min |
| Nov 10, 12:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 55 min |
| Nov 10, 12:22 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Washington | 38 min |
| Nov 10, 12:50 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian | 40 min |
| Nov 10, 1:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll, Madison | 34 min |
| Nov 10, 1:25 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Franklin | 20 min |
| Nov 9, 8:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 52 min |
| Nov 9, 8:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 66 min |
| Nov 9, 9:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 55 min |
| Nov 9, 9:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 55 min |
| Nov 9, 9:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 51 min |
| Nov 9, 9:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 46 min |
| Nov 9, 10:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata, Rogers | 54 min |
| Nov 9, 10:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 54 min |
| Nov 9, 10:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Tulsa, Wagoner | 54 min |
| Nov 9, 10:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Pittsburg | 59 min |
| Nov 9, 10:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 27 min |
| Nov 9, 11:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Muskogee | 51 min |
| Nov 9, 11:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pushmataha | 51 min |
| Nov 9, 11:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 58 min |
| Nov 9, 11:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware | 25 min |
| Nov 9, 11:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 25 min |
| Nov 9, 11:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg | 40 min |
| Nov 9, 11:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 39 min |
| Nov 9, 11:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware, Ottawa | 51 min |
| Nov 9, 11:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 51 min |
| Nov 9, 11:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell, Sequoyah | 38 min |
| Nov 9, 11:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore | 36 min |
| Nov 9, 11:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell | 31 min |
| Nov 10, 12:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Pushmataha | 37 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.