Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 2:39 AM CST for Benton County, Arkansas. It was in force for 36 min. 1 report 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
- Jan 3, 2000, 2:39 AM CST (08:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 3:15 AM CST
- In force
- 36 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), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:39 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, 2:55 AM CST | Hail 0.88 | Bentonville, AR |
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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 80 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 030840 SVRTUL ARC007-030915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 239 AM CST MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BENTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS * UNTIL 315 AM CST * AT 239 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF SPRINGTOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. ADDITIONAL PUBLIC REPORTS OF HIGH WIND AND SOME DAMAGE HAS BEEN REPORTED NEAR GENTRY AROUND 235 AM. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BELLA VISTA... HIWASSE...DECATUR...CAVE SPRINGS...HIGHFILL...SPRINGTOeWN...PEA RIDGE...GENTRY...ROGERS AND BENTONVILLE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3624 9456 3611 9440 3642 9396 3659 9418
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, 2:52 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 |
| Jan 3, 4:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin | 39 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.