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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Nov 23, 2001, 8:56 PM CST for Franklin County, Arkansas. It was in force for 49 min. 3 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
- Nov 23, 2001, 8:56 PM CST (02:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 23, 2001, 9:45 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Franklin County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:56 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, 9:10 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Altus, AR | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour by a trained spotter blew a truck over on Interstate 40. |
| Nov 23, 9:45 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Meg, AR | |
| Nov 23, 9:55 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Altus, 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 165 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.
804 WFUS54 KTSA 240256 TORTUL ARC047-240345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 856 PM CST FRI NOV 23 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS * UNTIL 945 PM CST * AT 856 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DENNING...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...DENNING... ALTUS AND WIEDERKEHR VILLAGE. 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 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 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 3543 9390 3531 9391 3537 9370 3554 9370
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, 8:14 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, 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.