Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 2000, 6:58 PM CDT for Benton County, Arkansas. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 2000, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Benton County, AR
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 1518 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 428 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
951 WUUS54 KTSA 232359 SVRTUL ARC007-240100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 658 PM CDT SUN APR 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BENTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 658 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF GRAVETTE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BELLA VISTA... HIWASSE...DECATUR AND GRAVETTE. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKLES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. CALL 1-800-722-2778 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3648 9458 3632 9447 3645 9420 3683 9420
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 Apr 23, 3:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 3:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 345 PM CDT SUN APR 23 2000 VERY IMPRESSIVE STORMS ON RADAR THIS AFTERNOON WITH TORNADO THREAT CONTINUING IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF THE AREA. THREAT WILL BE SHIFTING OFF TO THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF THE AREA THRU THE EARLY EVENING HOURS AS UPPER SYSTEM MOVING ACROSS THE AREA TRANSLATES ON EASTWARD. MEANWHILE...OVER NORTHEAST OK SEVERE WEATHER ALSO ONGOING LATE THIS AFTERNOON ASSOCIATED WITH COLD POOL ALOFT AND THREAT OF HAIL. ALSO HEAVY RAIN THREAT WITH STORMS UNDER THE UPPER LOW IN NORTHEAST OK. LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING IN A FEW HOURS SHOULD WEAKEN STORMS IN THIS AREA...SO THREAT OF SEVERE WX SHOULD DIMINISH OR SHIFT OUT OF THE AREA DURING THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. ONCE THIS SYSTEM MOVES OFF TO THE EAST THIS EVENING SHOULD SEE GENERAL NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT FOR A FEW DAYS AND QUIET WEATHER. WEAK IMPULSE WILL BRUSH BY TO THE NORTH LATE MONDAY OR EARLY TUESDAY..BUT EXPECT ANY ASSOCIATED PRECIP TO ALSO STAY TO THE NORTH. TEMPS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS LOOK RATHER SEASONAL WITH NEXT MAJOR SYSTEM TO AFFECT THE AREA STILL JUST BEYOND THIS FORECAST. FCSTID = 4 TUL 52 72 48 73 / 30 0 0 10 FSM 54 72 46 74 / 30 0 0 10 MLC 53 72 48 75 / 30 0 0 10 BVO 50 70 43 71 / 30 0 0 10 FYV 50 68 42 70 / 30 0 0 10 BYV 50 68 42 70 / 30 0 0 10 MIO 50 69 43 71 / 30 0 0 10 MKO 53 72 48 73 / 30 0 0 10 F10 53 72 48 73 / 30 0 0 10 HHW 55 74 52 78 / 30 0 0 10 .TUL... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 23, 4:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
425 PM CDT SUN APR 23 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0405 PM 1 E DEWEY OK .75 INCH HAIL
04/23/00 WASHINGTON SPOTTER REPORT.
0405 PM BUNCH OK 1 INCH HAIL
04/23/00 ADAIR LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORT.
X0415 PM KEEFETON OK .75 INCH HAIL
04/23/00 MUSKOGEE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
REPORT.
DRMLocal storm report, Apr 23, 5:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
505 PM CDT SUN APR 23 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0455 PM 6 E CHECOTAH OK 1 INCH HAIL
04/23/00 MCINTOSH EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
REPORT.
0457 PM 4 E CHECOTAH OK 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/23/00 MCINTOSH EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
REPORT.Local storm report, Apr 23, 5:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
542 PM CDT SUN APR 23 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0450 PM WELTY OK .75 INCH HAIL
04/23/00 OKFUSKEE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
REPORT.
0515 PM 1 E CENTRALIA OK .75 INCH HAIL
04/23/00 CRAIG EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
REPORT.
0515 PM OKFUSKEE OK .75 INCH HAIL
04/23/00 OKFUSKEE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
REPORT.
0527 PM TULSA OK .75 INCH HAIL
04/23/00 TULSA 61ST AND LEWIS IN
TULSA. PUBLIC REPORT.Local storm report, Apr 23, 5:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
549 PM CDT SUN APR 23 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0545 PM OKMULGEE OK 1 INCH HAIL
04/23/00 OKMULGEE SPOTTER REPORT.Local storm report, Apr 23, 6:26 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
626 PM CDT SUN APR 23 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
a0611 PM SALEM OK 1 INCH HAIL
04/23/00 MCINTOSH EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
REPORT.Local storm report, Apr 23, 6:26 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
626 PM CDT SUN APR 23 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0405 PM 8 NNW BUNCH OK 1 INCH HAIL
04/23/00 ADAIR LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORT.
CORRECTED LOCATION.
P@REVIOUSLY REPORTED IN
BUNCH.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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.