Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 2002, 11:11 PM CST for Crawford County, Arkansas. It was in force for 49 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
- Mar 24, 2002, 11:11 PM CST (05:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2002, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Crawford County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:15 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.
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 9:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 496 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KTSA 250511 SVRTUL ARC033-250600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1111 PM CST SUN MAR 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST * AT 1111 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NATURAL DAM...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...MULBERRY... MOUNTAINBURG...CEDARVILLE...NATURAL DAM...CHESTER...FIGURE FIVE... RUDY AND LEE CREEK. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH. LAT...LON 3575 9453 3551 9452 3550 9404 3576 9398
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 Mar 24, 9:16 PM CST, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 24, 9:16 PM CST, 1 hour 55 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 916 PM CST SUN MAR 24 2002 STG TO SVR TS CONTINUING INVOF OF SFC CDFNT THAT EXTNDS FM A BVO-TUL-SNL LINE. GOLF BALL TO QUARTER SIZE HAS BEEN COMMON WITH SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS. FA IN AREA OF FAVORABLE JET DYNAMICS WITH DIVERGENCE ALOFT. LLVL JET WILL ALSO CONTINUE TO INCREASE ACROSS THE AREA. WL UPDATE ZONES SHORTLY TO REFLECT HIGHER PRECIP CHANCES ACROSS THE SOUTH AND EAST AND FOR WATCH #34. FCSTID = 10 .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 24, 9:07 PM CST, 2 hours 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
907 PM CST SUN MAR 24 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0905 PM BEARDEN OK 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/24/02 OKFUSKEE REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
MANNINGLocal storm report, Mar 24, 9:38 PM CST, 1 hour 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
938 PM CST SUN MAR 24 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0905 PM 5 S HENRYETTA OK 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/24/02 OKMULGEE REPORTED BY SPOTTERS.
0920 PM WYNONA OK .75 INCH HAIL
03/24/02 OSAGE REPORTED BY HAM RADIO.
0915 PM GRAYSON OK .75 INCH HAIL
03/24/02 OKMULGEE 2 INCHES OF DIME SIZED
HAIL REPORTED BY SPOTTERS.
MANNINGLocal storm report, Mar 24, 9:47 PM CST, 1 hour 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
947 PM CST SUN MAR 24 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0940 PM 3 SW CHECOTAH OK 1.00 INCH HAIL
03/24/02 MCINTOSH REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0940 PM PORTER OK .75 INCH HAIL
03/24/02 WAGONER REPORTED BY HAM RADIO.
MANNINGLocal storm report, Mar 24, 9:50 PM CST, 1 hour 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
950 PM CST SUN MAR 24 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0905 PM BEARDEN OK 2.75 INCH HAIL
03/24/02 OKFUSKEE REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
MANNINGLocal storm report, Mar 24, 9:58 PM CST, 1 hour 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
958 PM CST SUN MAR 24 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0957 PM 2 S EUFAULA OK .75 INCH HAIL
03/24/02 MCINTOSH REPORTED BY HAM RADIO.
MANNINGLocal storm report, Mar 24, 10:04 PM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
1004 PM CST SUN MAR 24 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0957 PM 5 NE CANADIAN OK .75 INCH HAIL
03/24/02 PITTSBURG REPORTED ON THE COUNTY
LINE BRIDGE BY HAM RADIO.
MANNINGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 1:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison, Washington | 59 min |
| Mar 25, 7:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian | 34 min |
| Mar 25, 10:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin | 19 min |
| Mar 25, 1:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 43 min |
| Mar 25, 1:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin | 45 min |
| Mar 25, 4:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.