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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 26, 2000, 6:19 PM CST for Franklin County, Sebastian County, Arkansas. It was in force for 41 min. 6 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, 6:19 PM CST (00:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2000, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Franklin County, AR, Sebastian County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 6:30 PM CST | Hail 2.75 | Charleston, AR | |
| Mar 26, 6:30 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Charleston, AR | Baseball size hail was driven by 70 mile an hour winds and broke several windows and damaged several roofs. Cars were also damaged. |
| 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 188 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 WFUS54 KTSA 270019 TORTUL ARC047-131-270100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 619 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS NORTHEASTERN SEBASTIAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS * UNTIL 700 PM CST * AT 619 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF BLOOMER. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BLOOMER AND FT CHAFFEE IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW! LAT...LON 3538 9411 3529 9419 3492 9381 3510 9360
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 6:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 51 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.