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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Nov 23, 2001, 7:57 PM CST for Benton County, Washington County, Arkansas. It was in force for 63 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
- Nov 23, 2001, 7:57 PM CST (01:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 23, 2001, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Benton County, AR, Washington County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:57 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, 8:15 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Pea Ridge, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 23, 6:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 93 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.
511 WFUS54 KTSA 240158 TORTUL ARC007-143-240300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 757 PM CST FRI NOV 23 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR BENTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS NORTHWESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS * UNTIL 900 PM CST * AT 757 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION OVER HIGHFILL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BENTONVILLE... GENTRY...PEA RIDGE...SPRINGTOWN...HIGHFILL...CAVE SPRINGS... DECATUR...HIWASSE...BELLA VISTA...CINCINNATI AND TONTITOWN. A SECOND STRONG ROTATION WAS ALSO DETECTED OVER NORTHWEST WASHINGTON COUNTY JUST NORTHWEST OF CINCINATI. A TORNADO COULD FORM AT ANYTIME WITH THIS CIRCULATION AS WELL. IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS 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 3603 9460 3599 9436 3650 9403 3650 9439
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, 6:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin | 44 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, 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.