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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 322, NWS Tulsa, OK

October 5, 2000Crawford County, Franklin County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 5, 2000, 8:09 PM CDT for Crawford County, Franklin County, Arkansas. It was in force for 36 min. 5 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Oct 5, 2000, 8:09 PM CDT (01:09 UTC)
Expired
Oct 5, 2000, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Oct 5, 8:24 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52 EMulberry, AR
Oct 5, 8:24 PM CDTHail 0.88Mulberry, AR
Oct 5, 8:33 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52 EOzark, AR
Oct 5, 8:33 PM CDTHail 1.75Ozark, AR
Oct 5, 8:44 PM CDTThunderstorm WindOzark, ARThunderstorm winds blew trees down onto Highway 64.

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 nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 152 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2000-10-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2000-10-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -114 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
796 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

253 
WUUS54 KTSA 060109
SVRTUL
ARC033-047-060145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
809 PM CDT THU OCT 5 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
  FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 809 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
  RUDY...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...RUDY...DYER...
  ALMA...MOUNTAINBURG...WIEDERKEHR VILLAGE...FERN...ALTUS...MULBERRY
  AND OZARK.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE 
EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.

LAT...LON 3567 9429 3549 9434 3532 9381 3563 9367

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 Oct 5, 3:05 PM CDT, 5 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 5, 3:05 PM CDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
305 PM CDT THU OCT 5 2000

PROBLEMS FOR THIS FORECAST ARE NOT SO MUCH HOW COLD IT WILL GET BUT
THE CHANCE OF TSRA TONIGHT AND THE POTENTIAL FOR CLEARING TOMORROW.

AS OF THIS WRITING THE COLD FRONT HAD PASSED TULSA AND MIAMI AND
SHOULD BE APPROACHING FAYETTEVILLE AND MUSKOGEE.  EXPECT FRONT TO BE
THROUGH ALL BUT HUGO AREA BY THIS EVENING.  THE FRONT IS NOT EXACTLY
LIT UP WITH ACTIVITY.  THERE IS A NARROW BAND OF SHOWERS TO ITS NORTH
IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND SIGNS OF DEVELOPMENT NEAR IT IN NORTHWEST
ARKANSAS.  FEEL ONLY CHANCE POPS ARE JUSTIFIED WITH THE HIGHEST
VALUES IN PLACES CURRENTLY SOUTH OF THE FRONT.

UNLIKE PREVIOUS MODEL RUNS CURRENT MODELS SHUNT HIGHEST MEAN RH AIR
TO THE SOUTH OF THE FORECAST AREA BY TOMORROW MORNING.  THIS SHOULD
SIGNIFY THAT OVERRUNNING RAIN NOT LIKELY TOMORROW.  WILL ONLY CARRY
A SLIGHT CHANCE IN THE MORNING FOR THE HUGO ZONE GROUP.  THE MODELS
INDICATE THAT THE LOW CLOUDS BEHIND THE FRONT MAY BEGIN CLEARING
FROM THE NORTH TOMORROW WHICH IS ALSO FASTER THAN EARLIER
ANTICIPATED.  WILL CLEAR THE NORTH IN THE AFTERNOON...BUT LEAVE THE
SOUTH MOSTLY CLOUDY ALL DAY AND THEN LET IT BE PARTLY CLOUDY THERE
TOMORROW NIGHT.

WILL GO PARTLY CLOUDY EVERYWHERE TOMORROW NIGHT AND SATURDAY.  THE
FWC SHOWS CLEAR SKIES WHILE THE NEW AVN MOS SHOWS OVERCAST
CONDITIONS.  DO NOT HAVE A GOOD FEEL EITHER WAY AND THUS HAVE
COMPROMISED.  IF THERE ARE CLOUDS EXPECT THEM TO BE MID LEVEL CLOUDS
WITHOUT MUCH OF A THREAT FOR RAIN.

TEMPWISE HAVE GENERALLY GONE SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE NEW AVN MOS AND
THE FWC'S WHILE TRYING TO KEEP CONTINUITY WITH THE CURRENT
FORECAST.  WITH THE THREAT OF CLOUDS TOMORROW NIGHT DO NOT SEE A
FREEZE IN THE WORKS THEN...BUT THERE SHOULD BE A SHOT AT IT SATURDAY
NIGHT.

FCSTID = 17
TUL   45  58  40  55 /  30  10  10  10
FSM   52  60  45  58 /  50  10   0  10
MLC   53  60  43  58 /  50  10   0  10
BVO   43  58  38  53 /  30   0   0  10
FYV   48  60  38  53 /  40  10   0  10
BYV   48  60  38  53 /  40  10   0  10
MIO   45  58  38  53 /  30   0   0  10
MKO   48  60  42  58 /  40  10   0  10
F10   45  58  40  55 /  30  10  10  10
HHW   56  63  45  60 /  50  20   0  10

.TUL...
AR...NONE.
OK...NONE.

ABBAS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 5, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAFranklin19 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.