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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Tulsa, OK

January 3, 2000Crawford County, Sebastian County, Arkansas; LeFlore County, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 4:05 AM CST for Crawford County, Sebastian County, Arkansas; LeFlore County, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 50 min. 7 reports 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: Jan 3, 2000, 4:05 AM CST (10:05 UTC)
Expired: Jan 3, 2000, 4:55 AM CST
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Crawford County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, LeFlore County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:09 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, 4:10 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Bokoshe, OK	Large tree limb blown down by thunderstorm winds.
Jan 3, 4:15 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg, AR	Thunderstorm winds blew down a tree.
Jan 3, 4:26 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Arkoma, OK
Jan 3, 4:30 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Mulberry, AR	Thunderstorm winds blew down a power pole.
Jan 3, 4:34 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Greenwood, AR
Jan 3, 4:40 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Witcherville, AR	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and blew over chicken pens.
Jan 3, 4:50 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Milltown, AR	Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and also blew the roof off a garage.

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
Jan 2, 11:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 189 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KTSA 031005
SVRTUL
ARC033-131-OKC079-135-031055-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
405 AM CST MON JAN 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN SEQUOYAH COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
  SOUTHERN CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
  NORTHERN LE FLORE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA   
  SEBASTIAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 455 AM CST

* AT 404 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES NORTHWEST
  OF BOKOSHE TO BOKOSHE TO WISTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...RUDY...
FIGURE FIVE...DYER...CEDARVILLE...ALMA...VAN BUREN...BLOOMER...JENNY
LIND...BONANZA...EXCELSIOR...BURNVILLE...WASHBURN...MIDLAND...
HUNTINGTON...LAVACA...BARLING...GREENWOOD...HACKETT...HARTFORD...FORT
SMITH...ARKOMA...POCOLA...SPIRO...BOKOSHE...PANAMA...CAMERON...
WISTER...HOWE...POTEAU...MOFFETT...ROLAND...MULDROW AND GANS

WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.

LAT...LON 3553 9414 3559 9416 3565l 9422 3553 9446
          3535 9479 3525 9494 3520 9483 3483 9478
          3515 9407 3546 9408

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, 2:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	36 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, 4:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	46 min
Jan 3, 4:36 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin	39 min
Jan 3, 1:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	36 min
Jan 3, 3:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Sequoyah	46 min
Jan 3, 5:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	35 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.