Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 262, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2001, 9:14 PM CDT for Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2001, 9:14 PM CDT (02:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2001, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison County, AR
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 2330 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1144 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KTSA 150214 SVRTUL ARC087-150300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 914 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 914 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES NORTH OF AURORA TO 12 MILES WEST OF ST PAUL...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...JAPTON... WITTER...BOSTON...KINGSTON...AURORA...PETTIGREW AND ST PAUL. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE NEAR ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR VERY LARGE HAIL AND STRONG DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! LAT...LON 3608 9375 35I77 9399 3576 9352 3608 9317
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 14, 3:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 3:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 14 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 300 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001 FORECAST A LITTLE BEHIND SCHED DUE TO MID-AFTERNOON UPDATE. MAIN PROBLEM FOR THIS FORECAST IS THE TIMING OF TSRA TONIGHT. MODELS IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT THAT BACK EDGE OF STORMS WILL MOVE SE ACROSS THE AREA... ENDING BEFORE 6Z AT KTUL AND AROUND 12Z ACROSS FAR SE ZONES. COULD SEE LINGERING POST-FRONTAL PRECIP IN THE VERY SE CORNER OF CWA AFTER 12Z BUT CHANCE MAY BE TOO LOW TO MENTION FOR 2ND PERIOD. AS FOR SEVERE THREAT...BEST CHANCE FOR SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WILL BE ACROSS SERN OK AHEAD OF THE FRONT THIS EVENING. STORMS SHOULD NOT GET TO NW AR UNTIL AFTER MIDNIGHT WHEN INSTABILITY WILL BE DECREASED FROM AFTERNOON LEVELS. MOST SVR STORMS AND TORNADO THREAT MAY STAY WEST OF CWA ACROSS SOUTHCENTRAL OK THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING WITH SOME THREAT IN SE OK AFTER 8PM. WITH TOR WATCH IN EFFECT AND SPORADIC SEVERE STORMS EXPECTED IN CWA HAVE KEPT MENTION OF SVR POSSIBLE IN ZFP. AFTER FROPA...WILL BE NOTICABLY COOLER AND DRIER IN THE MORNING WITH PATCHY FOG. WARM AFTERNOON TEMPS ARE EXPECTED BUT HUMIDITIES WILL BE LOWER SO IT SHOULD BE A LITTLE MORE BEARABLE COMPARED WITH THE LAST FEW DAYS. DRY AIR WILL BE GONE AFTER TOMORROW AS SLY SFC FLOW RETURN SO ENJOY FRIDAY WHILE IT LASTS. LOOKED AT MODELS AGAIN FOR LATER PERIODS AND APPEARS THAT FLOW ALOFT WILL REMAIN NORTH OF THE AREA THROUGH THE NEXT 7 DAYS. THUS ANY STORMS TO THE NORTH OF THE AREA WILL HAVE A VERY HARD TIME MAKING IT THIS FAR SOUTH. SLY FLOW WILL RETURN LATE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AND WARM FRONT DEVELOPS OVER NEBRASKA AND IOWA. STORMS SHOULD STAY ALONG AND NORTH OF WARM FRONT SAT NIGHT EVEN WITH WNWLY FLOW ALOFT. TEMPS SHOULD BE AT OR JUST ABOVE NORMAL THROUGH THE PERIOD. FCSTID = 26 TUL 64 89 63 91 / 60 0 0 0 FSM 65 88 62 92 / 80 10 0 0 MLC 65 88 63 92 / 70 10 0 0 BVO 60 86 61 89 / 60 0 0 0 FYV 61 83 57 87 / 80 10 0 0 BYV 61 83 56 87 / 80 10 0 0 MIO 62 86 63 88 / 70 0 0 0 MKO 64 88 66 91 / 60 0 0 0 F10 64 88 66 91 / 60 0 0 0 HHW 68 88 63 91 / 70 10 0 0 .TSA... AR...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR ALL ZONES. OK...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR ALL ZONES.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 7:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-151100- EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 700 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001 ...UPDATED FOR CURRENT TRENDS... ...FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED THIS EVENING ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS... EARLY THIS EVENING...A SURFACE COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM NEAR BARTLESVILLE TO SHAMROCK...AND INTO CENTRAL OKLAHOMA. THE FRONT WAS MAKING SLOW PROGRESS TO THE SOUTHEAST. AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM THUNDERSTORMS EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON WAS LOCATED ACROSS NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE AHEAD OF THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY THIS EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL BE SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM JAY IN DELAWARE COUNTY...TO HANNA IN MCINTOSH COUNTY. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL REMAIN NECESSARY THIS EVENING...MAINLY SOUTHEAST OF A JAY TO HANNA OKLAHOMA LINE. .DISCUSSION... THE COLD FRONT APPEARS TO BE STALLED ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA...AND MAY NOT MAKE MUCH MORE EASTWARD PROGRESS THROUGH THE NIGHT. HOWEVER OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES ASSOCIATED WITH CURRENT CONVECTION WILL SUPPORT THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS EVENING. SURFACE INSTABILITY WILL BE GREAT ENOUGH FOR A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS EVENING. LIFTED INDEX VALUES RANGED FROM -9 TO -11 CELSIUS WITH SURFACE BASED CAPES NEAR 3000 J/KG. THE SEVERE THREAT WILL DIMINISH AFTER 10 PM. THE MAIN THREAT FROM SEVERE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. ISOLATED SUPERCELLS ARE STILL POSSIBLE AS WELL. THREAT TABLE VALID THROUGH 6 AM FRIDAY THREAT AREA 1...SOUTHEAST OF A JAY TO HANNA LINE THUNDERSTORM PROBABILITY...100 SEVERE PROBABILITY IF STORMS OCCUR...70 SIGNIFICANT SEVERE PROBABILITY IF STORMS OCCUR...50 THREAT AREAS DEFINE THE GREATEST RISK. PROBABILITIES ARE IN PERCENT. SIGNIFICANT SEVERE IS DEFINED AS F1 OR GREATER WIND/TORNADO DAMAGE AND/OR GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL OR LARGER. RELATED GRAPHICAL INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT... WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA SJT
Local storm report, Jun 14, 8:36 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
836 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0832 PM SPIRO OK WIND DAMAGE
06/14/01 LE FLORE 2 TO 6 INCH DIAMETER
LIMBS DOWNED. REPORTED
BY HAM.Local storm report, Jun 14, 8:43 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
843 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
073m6 PM FAYETTEVILLE AR .75 INCH HAIL
06/14/01 WASHINGTONLocal storm report, Jun 14, 9:00 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
900 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 PM TAHLEQUAH OK WIND DAMAGE
06/14/01 CHEROKEE POWER LINES DOWN IN
TAHLEQUAH. REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT.
0715 PM HIGGINS OK WIND DAMAGE
06/14/01 LATIMER LARGE TREE UPROOTED AND
ONE OUTBUILDING
DESTROYED. PUBLIC REPORT.
0835 PM SALLISAW OK WIND DAMAGE
06/14/01 SEQUOYAH POWER LINES DOWN IN
SALLISAW. REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT.Local storm report, Jun 14, 9:07 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1004 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0800 PM 2 E SPEER OK .75 INCH HAIL
06/14/01 CHOCTAW PUBLIC REPORT.Local storm report, Jun 14, 9:11 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1004 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
08 00 PM 2 E SPEER OK .75 INCH HAIL
06/14/01 CHOCTAW PUBLIC REPORT.The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 46 min |
| Jun 14, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll, Madison | 39 min |
| Jun 14, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 54 min |
| Jun 14, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin | 40 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.