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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 26, 2000Washington County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2000, 5:00 PM CST for Washington County, Arkansas. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 26, 2000, 5:00 PM CST (23:00 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 2000, 5:45 PM CST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Washington County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 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
Mar 26, 5:30 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Odell, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 26, 4:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 109 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -239 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1224 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KTSA 262301
SVRTUL
ARC143-262345-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
500 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 545 PM CST

* AT 500 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES NORTHWEST
  OF WATTS TO 6 MILES NORTH OF CHRISTIE TO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  CHRISTIE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
CINCINNATI...GREENLAND...STRICKLER...FARMINGTON...PRAIRIE GROVE...
LINCOLN...FAYETTEVILLE...WATTS...WESTVILLE...CHRISTIE...BARON AND
STILWELL

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

BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH.

LAT...LON B3618 9463 3606 9476 3587 9477 3567 9434
          3590 9422 3612 9414

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 26, 5:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford	39 min
Mar 26, 5:25 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Crawford	50 min
Mar 26, 5:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	41 min
Mar 26, 5:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin, Madison, Washington	60 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.