Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jan 3, 2000, 2:52 AM CST for Benton County, Arkansas. It was in force for 23 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
- Jan 3, 2000, 2:52 AM CST (08:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 3:15 AM CST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Benton County, AR
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:52 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, 2:55 AM CST | Hail 0.88 | Bentonville, 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 nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KTSA 030852 TORTUL ARC007-030915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 252 AM CST MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN BENTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS * UNTIL 315 AM CST * AT 252 AM CST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION OVER BENTONVILLE. MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH...THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... GARFIELD... GATEWAY...PEA RIDGE...ROGERS AND BENTONVILLE TORNADOES IN HILLY OR MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS - TAKE COVER NOW! YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO COMING. NIGHTTIME TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS - TAKE COVER NOW! IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE! LAT...LON 3636 9435 3623 9419 3647 9385 3663 9405
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, 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, 4:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 50 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 |
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.