Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 224, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2002, 2:37 PM CDT for Franklin County, Arkansas. It was in force for 38 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 2002, 2:37 PM CDT (19:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2002, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Franklin County, AR
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -235 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1278 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
359 WUUS54 KTSA 141937 SVRTUL ARC047-142015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 237 PM CDT SUN JUL 14 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS * UNTIL 315 PM CDT * AT 237 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES EAST OF DENNING...MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...OZARK... BRANCH...DENNING...ALTUS AND WIEDERKEHR VILLAGE. WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 3537 9366 3554 9366 3545 9409 3522 9408
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 Jul 14, 10:10 AM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 10:10 AM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA 1010 AM CDT SUN JUL 14 2002 UPPER LOW WOBBLING OVER SE OK/SW AR THIS MORNING. ALREADY SEEING ISOLATED ECHOS ACROSS SE OK. LOWEST POPS CURRENTLY SHADED ACROSS NW ZONES...AND THIS LOOKS REASONABLE BASED ON CURRENT POSITION OF UPPER LOW. HIGH TEMPS LOOK REASONABLE AS WELL AND EXPECT SIMILAR READINGS TO THOSE OBSERVED YESTERDAY. NO UPDATE PLANNED THIS MORNING. FORECAST ID= 23 .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.