Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 5, 1999, 4:42 PM CST for Franklin County, Arkansas. It was in force for 33 min. 2 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
- Mar 5, 1999, 4:42 PM CST (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1999, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 5:05 PM CST | Hail 2.75 | Ozark, AR | Just south of Ozark, golfball to baseball-sized hail fell, while quarter to golfball-sized hail fell and covered the ground just north of Ozark.There were widespread reports of damage to vehicles and to roofs on homes and other structures. |
| Mar 5, 5:15 PM CST | Hail 1 | Altus, AR | Location: Wiederkehr Winery Restaurant...no damage |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 4:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1088 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 456 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 408 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WFUS54 KTSA 052243 RRA TORTUL ARC047-052315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 442 PM CST FRI MAR 5 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR FRANKLIN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS * UNTIL 515 PM CST * AT 442 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FERN. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... CASS...FERN AND OZARK IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 3:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Crawford | 39 min |
| Mar 5, 4:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Crawford | 48 min |
| Mar 5, 4:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 53 min |
| Mar 5, 5:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Franklin | 50 min |
| Mar 5, 5:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 29 min |
| Mar 5, 5:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin | 44 min |
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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.