Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 303, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 1, 2000, 3:37 PM CDT for Franklin County, Arkansas. It was in force for 38 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
- Sep 1, 2000, 3:37 PM CDT (20:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 1, 2000, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Franklin County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 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
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 336 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
- 89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -313 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2615 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 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 012037 SVRTUL ARC047-012115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 337 PM CDT FRI SEP 1 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS * UNTIL 415 PM CDT * AT 337 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF OZARK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...WIEDERKEHR VILLAGE...ALTUS...DENNING...BRANCH AND OZARK. WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3569 9401 3527 9408 3532 9384 3552 9366
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 Sep 1, 3:10 PM CDT, 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 1, 3:10 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 310 PM CDT FRI SEP 1 2000 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN MORE WIDESPREAD THAN THOUGHT AND AREN'T HELPING KEEP THE HEAT DOWN AT ALL. SUBTLE FEATURES THAT SEEM TO BE AIDING CONVECTION IS WEAK SURFACE CONVERGENCE AREA AND WEAK SHORT WAVE ALONG WITH MID LEVEL (700 MB) RH > 70 PERCENT. MORNING ETA SHOWED WEAKEST CAP IN AREA WHERE PCP IS GOING WITH CIN AT 18Z -20 J/KG. CONVECTION WAS PRETTY MUCH DONE LAST NIGHT BY 7PM AND FEEL THE SAME WILL HAPPEN WITH THIS STUFF. WILL WORD SCT THUNDER ENDING EARLY THIS EVE IN E/SE ZONES. MID/HI LEVEL CLOUDS WON'T BE AROUND TO HELP KEEP MINS UP TONIGHT WITH SOME DRYING PROGGED IN LOW LEVELS...SO TEMPS SHOULD DROP TO READINGS SIMILAR TO A FEW NIGHTS AGO. LOW LEVEL THICKNESS PROGGS BY MODELS SHOW A FEW DEGS WARMING POSSIBLE SAT AND SUNDAY. ETA SHOWS HIGHER 700 MB TEMPS AND WITH NO SURFACE CONVERGENCE BOUNDARY SATURDAY BUT RETURN THE BOUNDARY AND SLIGHTLY HIGHER LOW LEVEL DEWPOINTS ON SUNDAY AN MONDAY. ETA BRINGS A FRONT SOUTH TOWARDS THE AREA SAT NIGHT WITH A SHORT WAVE RIDEING OVER THE RIDGE INTO SW MO ON SUNDAY. COULD SEE BOUNDARY GET CLOSE ENOUGH TO NE OK WITH SHORT WAVE TO PRODUCE SOME AFTERNOON CONVECTION IN NE OK SUNDAY AFTERNOON...BUT FEEL BEST CHC WILL STILL BE IN FAR NE ZONES WHERE TERRAIN WILL AID LIFT. MONDAY LOOKS SIMILAR TO SUNDAY WITH TUE AND WED STILL HOT AND LIKELY DRY. FWC TEMPS WHEN TO COOL SEASON FORMULAS TOO EARLY THIS YEAR AND THAT IS REASON FWC TEMPS ARE ABOUT 10 DEGS TOO COOL FOR MAXES. MINS NOT BAD. WILL GO WITH 110 FOR FSM SAT WITH 102 TO 109 ON SUN WITH A FEW MORE CLOUDS AND A SLGT CHC FOR THUNDERSTORMS IN E/SE. SAME ON MONDAY WITH SLIGHTLY COOLER (100-105) FOR TUE AND WED. WE ARE LOSING 3 OR 4 MINUTES OF SUNSHINE A DAY...WHICH HAS GOT TO TAKE SOME EDGE OFF OF THIS HEAT AT SOME POINT. RECORDS WILL CONTINUE TO BE IN TROUBLE THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS...RECORDS AT FYV...FSM...MLC AND TUL BROKEN TODAY. FCSTID = 13 TUL 72 108 72 108 / 0 0 0 5 FSM 71 110 71 108 / 5 0 5 20 MLC 71 108 71 108 / 5 0 5 10 BVO 67 109 67 109 / 0 0 0 5 FYV 64 103 65 103 / 5 0 5 20 BYV 63 102 65 102 / 5 0 5 20 MIO 66 105 68 104 / 0 0 0 5 MKO 70 108 70 108 / 0 0 0 0 F10 70 108 70 107 / 0 0 0 0 HHW 71 107 71 107 / 0 0 0 10 .TUL... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 1, 12:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-021100- EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1210 PM CDT FRI SEP 1 2000 ...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AND EXTREME EASTERN OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON... .PRIMARY HAZARD... HIGH TEMPERATURES ONCE AGAIN TODAY WILL ALLOW THE ATMOSPHERE TO BECOME UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE AREA. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INTO EXTREME EASTERN OKLAHOMA IF ENOUGH LIFT CAN BE PRODUCED BY THE HIGHER TERRAIN AND CONVERGENT SURFACE WINDS. .DISCUSSION... SURFACE WINDS WILL CONVERGE ACROSS NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AND EXTREME EASTERN OKLAHOMA PROVIDING AN AREA OF LIFT THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING. IF THUNDERSTORMS DO DEVELOP...ONE OR TWO MAY BRIEFLY APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. .OTHER HAZARDS... A VERY HIGH FIRE DANGER WILL EXIST ACROSS THE AREA AGAIN TODAY. VERY DRY VEGETATION AND MODERATE SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE FIRE DANGER. IF ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP...THEY WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNIHNG WHICH COULD IGNITE NEW FIRES. THE FIRE DANGER STATEMENT /OKCFWMTUL/ GIVES ADDITIONAL DETAILS ON TODAYS FIRE DANGER. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT.
Local storm report, Sep 1, 2:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
201 PM CDT FRI SEP 01 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1248 PM ST PAUL AR WIND DAMAGE
09/01/00 MADISON LARGE TREE LIMB BLOWN
DOWN [PUBLIC RPT]Local storm report, Sep 1, 3:21 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
321 PM CDT FRI SEP 01 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0300 PM 3 NE ALMA AR WIND DAMAGE
09/01/00 CRAWFORD LARGE BILLBOARD BLOWN
DOWN. FELL ACROSS I-40
BLOCKING TRAFFIC.
[FORT SMITH ASP]
0300 PM 2 E ALMA AR WIND DAMAGE
09/01/00 CRAWFORD POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN.
TREE BLOWN DOWN AND
FELL ACROSS TRACTOR
TRAILER. [FORT SMITH
ASP]The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison | 45 min |
| Sep 1, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison | 41 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.