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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 2000, 1:37 AM CDT for Carroll County, Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 38 min. 2 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
- Apr 20, 2000, 1:37 AM CDT (06:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2000, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carroll County, AR, Madison County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 1:45 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Eureka Spgs, AR | Thunderstorm winds blew down a couple of trees. One of the trees fell on a camper destroying it. |
| Apr 20, 2:15 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Pettigrew, AR | Thunderstorms winds blew down several large tree limbs. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 1428 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1062 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 12.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KTSA 200640 SVRTUL ARC015-087-200715- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 137 AM CDT THU APR 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CARROLL COUNTY AND MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS * UNTIL 215 AM CDT * AT 137 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 21 MILES NORTHWEST OF BEAVER TO 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BEAVER TO 8 MILES WEST OF HINDSVILLE TO MOUNT GAYLER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 75 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...CLIFTY... HINDSVILLE...BEAVER...GRANDVIEW...URBANETTE...OAK GROVE...GREEN FOREST...EUREKA SPRINGS...BERRYVILLE...HUNSTVILLE AND ST PAUL WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH. CALL 1-800-7!22-2778 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Washington | 62 min |
| Apr 20, 1:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford | 54 min |
| Apr 20, 2:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin | 45 min |
| Apr 20, 2:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison | 31 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.