Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 36, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Nov 23, 2001, 8:14 PM CST for Carroll 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 23, 2001, 8:14 PM CST (02:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 23, 2001, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Carroll County, AR
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:17 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.
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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 72 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.
008 WFUS54 KTSA 240214 TORTUL ARC015-240300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 814 PM CST FRI NOV 23 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS * UNTIL 900 PM CST * AT 814 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 6 MILES NORTH OF CARROLLTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...OAK GROVE... GREEN FOREST...CARROLLTON AND RULE. 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 3624 9349 3622 9331 3650 9325 3652 9344
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, 7:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Benton, Washington | 63 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
Tornado Warnings in Arkansas, 2001Every tornado warning in 2001Tornadoes 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.