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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2000, 6:09 PM CST for Crawford County, Sebastian County, Arkansas. It was in force for 51 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
- Mar 26, 2000, 6:09 PM CST (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2000, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Crawford County, AR, Sebastian County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 6:17 PM CST | Hail 4.5 | Lavaca, AR | Softball size hail fell in Lavaca likely damaging cars, roofs and windows. |
| Mar 26, 6:23 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Bloomer, AR | |
| Mar 26, 6:25 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Bloomer, AR | A tornado touched down just east of Bloomer and produced tree damage as it moved into Franklin County. |
| Mar 26, 6:27 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Charleston, AR | A tornado touched down east of Bloomer in Sebastian County and tracked into Franklin County before lifting just west of Charleston. Only tree damage was observed. |
| Mar 26, 7:05 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Chismville, 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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -169 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1328 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 349 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 363 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KTSA 270011 SVRTUL ARC033-131-270100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 609 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS SEBASTIAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS * UNTIL 700 PM CST * AT 609 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER VAN BUREN AND FORT SMITH...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...VAN BUREN... BLOOMER...JENNY LIND...FT CHAFFEE...BONANZA...MANSFIELD... EXCELSIOR...BURNVILLE...WASHBURN...MIDLAND...HUNTINGTON...LAVACA... BARLING...GREENWOOD...HACKETT...HARTFORD AND FORT SMITH HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3551 9429 3540 9446 3495 9439 3508 9382
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 6:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Franklin, Sebastian | 41 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.