Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 4:36 AM CST for Franklin County, Arkansas. It was in force for 39 min. 6 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
- Jan 3, 2000, 4:36 AM CST (10:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 5:15 AM CST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 5:00 AM CST | Hail 0.75 | Ozark, AR | |
| Jan 3, 5:00 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Ozark, AR | Thunderstorm winds blew down trees. |
| Jan 3, 5:00 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Ozark, AR | Thunderstorm winds damaged a chicken house and a barn. Several trees were also blown down. |
| Jan 3, 5:05 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 54 E | Ozark, AR | |
| Jan 3, 5:10 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Altus, AR | Thunderstorm winds blew down trees. |
| Jan 3, 5:10 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Altus, AR | Thunderstorm winds rolled a mobile home over and blew down several trees. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 4:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 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
- 1681 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KTSA 031036 SVRTUL ARC047-031115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 436 AM CST MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS * UNTIL 515 AM CST * AT 436 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 15 MILES WEST OF FERN TO 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FERN TO 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF BRANCH TO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BRANCH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...WIEDERKEHR VILLAGE...CASS...FERN...ALTUS...DENNING...BRANCH AND OZARK WINDS GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.
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 Jan 3, 4:10 AM CST, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 3, 4:10 AM CST, 26 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...AMENDED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 410 AM CST MON JAN 3 2000 ...ADDED TORNADO WATCH BANNER FOR AR ZONES... VIGOROUS S/W RESPONSIBLE FOR SOME SVR CONVECTION THIS MORNING JUST STARTING TO LIFT OUT AND MOVE NORTHEAST. SFC BOUNDARY DRAPED ACROSS SRN OK EARLY THIS MORNING IS EXPECTED TO LIFT SOME AS THE SFC LOW ASSOCIATED WITH THE UPPER WAVE MOVES NE. CONVECTION RAPIDLY MOVING NORTHEAST.. AND THERE DOESNT APPEAR TO BE ANY ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT DOWNSTREAM. WILL PROBABLY CONFINE POPS TO THIS MORNING ACROSS ALL ZONES. MODELS OFFER VARYING SOLUTIONS WITH POSTIONING OF DRY SLOT WHICH WILL LIKELY MAKE ITS PUNCH INTO SW ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. LOW RH'S WORK INTO SE OK THIS AFTERNOON...SO WILL GO PARTLY CLOUDY IN ZONES SOUTH OF A MLC-FSM LINE. WRAP AROUND CLOUDS FILTER BACK IN FROM THE NORTH THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. MAIN SFC BOUNDARY WILL BE MOVING ACROSS FA USHERING COLDER AIR. THICKNESS VALUES LOW ENOUGH TO SUPPORT SNOW ACROSS ALL OF FA...THOUGH SFC WIND FIELDS TONIGHT ARE NOT CONDUCIVE FOR ACCUMULATING SNOW. WILL GO WITH CHANCE OF LIGHT SNOW NORTH OF I-40 WITH MENTION OF FLURRIES ELSEWHERE. UPPER TROUGH AXIS SHIFTS EAST OF THE AREA BY AFTERNOON TUESDAY...LEAVING MOST AREAS PARTLY CLOUDY. SFC RIDGE NEARLY CENTERED ON TOP OF REGION TUESDAY NIGHT SHOULD MAKE FOR IDEAL RADIATIONAL COOLING. 1ST PERIOD TEMPS A REAL MESS WITH LOCATION OF SFC BOUNDARY AND PRECIP CREATING A WIDE RANGE OF TEMPERATURES THIS MORNING. WILL BASE 1ST PERIOD ON SFC BOUNDARY POSTIONING AND RADAR TRENDS. BEYOND 1ST PD...STUCK PRETTY CLOSE TO GUIDANCE ON MAX TEMPS BUT UNDERCUT MINS SLIGHTLY. NOT MUCH TIME TO DIVE INTO THE EXTENDED. SETTLED WX EXPECTED THROUGH WED. QUICK PEEK AT MRF HAS BOUNDARY APPROACHING FA THURSDAY WITH THE BRUNT OF UPPER SUPPORT STAYING TO THE NORTH. CURRENT EXTENDED LOOKS REASONABLE AND WILL LEAVE AS IS. FCSTID = 23 PRELIMINARY NUMBERS TUL 50 25 41 23 / 60 40 20 0 FSM 60 29 41 23 / 70 30 20 0 MLC 64 28 42 24 / 40 30 10 0 BVO 48 22 38 20 / 40 40 10 0 FYV 50 27 35 19 / 70 40 20 0 BYV 50 27 35 19 / 70 40 20 0 MIO 46 22 38 20 / 40 40 10 0 MKO 50 25 34 23 / 60 40 20 0 F10 50 25 34 23 / 60 40 20 0 HHW 65 30 44 24 / 30 20 5 0 .TUL... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM QWATCH UNTIL 600 AM CST MONDAY FOR ZONES OKZ049... OKZ053...OKZ073>076. .AR... TORNADO WATCH FROM UNTIL 1000 AM CST MONDAY FOR ZONES ARZ002...ARZ010>011...ARZ019>020...ARZ029.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 11:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 38 min |
| Jan 3, 12:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin | 19 min |
| Jan 3, 2:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 36 min |
| Jan 3, 2:52 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Benton | 23 min |
| Jan 3, 3:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford | 54 min |
| Jan 3, 3:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 54 min |
| Jan 3, 4:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 50 min |
| Jan 3, 4:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison | 46 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.