Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 430, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 23, 2001, 6:31 PM CST for Crawford County, Franklin County, Arkansas. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report 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
- Nov 23, 2001, 6:31 PM CST (00:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 23, 2001, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 23, 7:25 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Denning, AR | An F1 tornado touched down 8 miles southwest of Denning and lifted just southwest of Denning. Along its path it damaged several barns and one house. The house was near Etna and it suffered roof damage and structural damage. The tornado briefly exited Frankli |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 23, 6:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 970 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 377 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
238 WUUS54 KTSA 240031 SVRTUL ARC033-047-240115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 631 PM CST FRI NOV 23 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS * UNTIL 715 PM CST * AT 631 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES WEST OF BRANCH...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...OZARK... MULBERRY...BRANCH...FERN...CASS...MOUNTAINBURG...ALMA...CHESTER... DYER AND RUDY. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. $$ DRM LAT...LON 3538 9430 3524 9390 3575 9375 3577 9429
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 23, 6:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 52 min |
| Nov 23, 7:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison | 52 min |
| Nov 23, 7:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Franklin | 47 min |
| Nov 23, 7:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 44 min |
| Nov 23, 7:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford | 54 min |
| Nov 23, 7:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Benton, Washington | 30 min |
| Nov 23, 7:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Benton, Washington | 63 min |
| Nov 23, 8:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Carroll | 46 min |
| Nov 23, 8:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin | 43 min |
| Nov 23, 8:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 51 min |
| Nov 23, 8:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford | 57 min |
| Nov 23, 8:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Franklin | 49 min |
| Nov 23, 9:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 47 min |
| Nov 23, 9:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin | 46 min |
| Nov 23, 9:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Washington | 60 min |
| Nov 23, 9:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison | 67 min |
| Nov 23, 9:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 48 min |
| Nov 23, 9:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 45 min |
| Nov 23, 9:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Franklin | 2 hr |
| Nov 23, 10:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin | 76 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.