Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 2000, 4:57 PM CST for Sebastian County, Arkansas; LeFlore County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 63 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
- Mar 25, 2000, 4:57 PM CST (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2000, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Sebastian County, AR, LeFlore County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 5:05 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Arkoma, OK |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 1:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 1364 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KTSA 252258 SVRTUL ARC131-OKC079-260000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 457 PM CST SAT MAR 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN LE FLORE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA SEBASTIAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS * UNTIL 600 PM CST * AT 457 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ARKOMA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...JENNY LIND... BONANZA...MANSFIELD...EXCELSIOR...BURNVILLE...WASHBURN... HUNTINGTON...GREENWOOD...HACKETT...ARKOMA AND POCOLA HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3540 9452 3530 9462 3497 9419 3516 9400
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 Mar 25, 4:18 PM CST, 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 4:18 PM CST, 39 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 418 PM CST SAT MAR 25 2000 STRONG CONVECTION HAS FIRED ALONG STALLED BOUNDARY THIS AFTERNOON...WITH AID OF DAYTIME HEATING AND WEAK CONVERGENCE. EXPECT THE CURRENT ACTIVITY TO WEAKEN AFTER SUNSET WITH LOSS OF HEATING...WITH ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT POSSIBLE BY MIDNIGHT AS WEAK SHORTWAVE APPROACHES FROM WEST. WILL KEEP POPS IN ALL AREAS EXCEPT IN THE ZONES NORTH OF TULSA...WITH HIGHEST POPS IN SOUTHERN ZONES ALONG AND SOUTH OF BOUNDARY. TRANSITION TO NORTHWEST FLOW BEGINS ON SUNDAY AS DEEP UPPER TROUGH DEVELOPS OVER GREAT LAKE REGION. RAIN CHANCES WILL CONTINUE INTO SUNDAY WITH LEFTOVER MORNING CONVECTION AND PROSPECTS FOR AFTERNOON DEVELOPMENT JUSTIFYING CHANCE POPS. COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS AREA SUNDAY EVENING...WITH DRIER AIRMASS SPREADING ACROSS OKLAHOMA AND ARKANSAS. WILL END RAIN CHANCES FROM WEST TO EAST SUNDAY EVENING AS DRY PUSH AND STG SUBSIDENCE LEADS TO RAPIDLY CLEARING SKIES SUNDAY NIGHT. MONDAY LOOKS LIKE TRANSITION DAY WITH MOSTLY SUNNY CONDITIONS UNDER SHORTWAVE RIDGE. TEMPERATURES WILL BE COOLER...WITH COOLER AVN MOS TEMPERATURES PREFERRED. IN EXTENDED...UNSETTLED WEATHER EXPECTED TUESDAY INTO THURSDAY AS ACTIVE SOUTHERN STREAM RESUMES. HAVE FOLLOWED MRF AND KEPT CHANCE POPS IN FOR ALL 3 DAYS...BUT OTHER MEDIUM RANGE MODELS DISAGREE ON TIMING AND LOCATION OF MRF POSITION OF SHORTWAVES THROUGH THE PERIOD. FCSTID = 9 TUL 50 76 48 68 / 20 50 20 0 FSM 56 79 50 72 / 40 50 40 0 MLC 56 81 50 72 / 30 50 20 0 BVO 49 75 46 67 / 10 50 20 0 FYV 51 74 47 67 / 20 50 40 0 BYV 50 74 46 66 / 20 50 40 0 MIO 50 75 47 67 / 20 50 20 0 MKO 52 77 49 70 / 30 50 20 0 F10 53 78 49 71 / 20 50 20 0 HHW 58 80 52 74 / 50 50 30 5 .TUL... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 800 PM CST SATURDAY FOR ZONES ARZ001...ARZ010>011...ARZ019>020...ARZ029. OK...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 800 PM CST SATURDAY FOR ZONES OKZ049...OKZ053...OKZ063...OKZ068>076.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 25, 1:10 PM CST, 3 hours 47 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-261200- EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 110 PM CST SAT MAR 25 2000 ...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... .SYNOPSIS... AT MIDDAY A STATIONARY FRONT WAS LOCATED FROM WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND INTO CENTRAL ARKANSAS. MEANWHILE... AN UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM SYSTEM OVER NEW MEXICO WILL APPROACH EASTERN OKLAHOMA TONIGHT. .PRIMARY HAZARD... A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TO THE SOUTH OF A FAYETTEVILLE TO MUSKOGEE TO OKEMAH LINE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL. .DISCUSSION... SUNSHINE WILL ALLOWED TEMPERATURES TO RISE INTO THE UPPER 70S AND LOWER 80S ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. THESE TEMPERATURES AND DEW POINTS IN THE UPPER 50S TO LOWER 60S WILL GENERATE CAPES IN THE 1500 TO 2500 J/KG RANGE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE PRESENSE OF THE SURFACE BOUNDARY AND APPROACH OF THE UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM WILL ALLOW FOR CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. WHILE LOW LEVEL WIND FIELDS WILL BE WEAK ...ENOUGH MID LEVEL WIND EXISTS FOR A FEW SUPERCELLS. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION... SPOTTERS ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...ALONG WITH OTHER DETAILED FORECASTS...CAN BE OBTAINED VIA THE INTERNET AT WWW.NWSTULSA.NOAA.GOV.
Local storm report, Mar 25, 2:50 PM CST, 2 hours 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
250 PM CST SAT MAR 25 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
\0220 PM RED OAK OK .75 INCH HAIL
03/25/00 LATIMER DEPUTY REPORTED DIME
SIZED HAIL NEAR RED OAK.
DRMLocal storm report, Mar 25, 4:05 PM CST, 52 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
405 PM CST SAT MAR 25 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0345 PM BENGAL OK .75 INCH HAIL
03/25/00 LATIMER DIME SIZED HAIL
REPORTED BY COOP
OBSERVER.
DRMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 5:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 39 min |
| Mar 25, 6:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Pushmataha | 55 min |
| Mar 25, 12:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 49 min |
| Mar 25, 3:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore | 56 min |
| Mar 25, 4:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Pushmataha | 63 min |
| Mar 25, 5:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 38 min |
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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.