Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 322, NWS Tulsa, OK
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 8:24 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Mulberry, AR | |
| Oct 5, 8:24 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Mulberry, AR | |
| Oct 5, 8:33 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Ozark, AR | |
| Oct 5, 8:33 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Ozark, AR | |
| Oct 5, 8:44 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Ozark, AR | Thunderstorm 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin | 19 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.