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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 25, 2002Madison County, Washington County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 2002, 1:16 AM CST for Madison County, Washington County, Arkansas. It was in force for 59 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 25, 2002, 1:16 AM CST (07:16 UTC)
Expired: Mar 25, 2002, 2:15 AM CST
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Madison County, AR, Washington County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:18 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
Mar 25, 1:20 AM CST	Hail 0.75	Huntsville, AR
Mar 25, 1:20 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Huntsville, AR
Mar 25, 1:34 AM CST	Hail 0.75	Farmington, 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
Mar 24, 9:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 100 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KTSA 250716
SVRTUL
ARC087-143-250815-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
114 AM CST MON MAR 25 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 215 AM CST

* AT 114 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
  A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF ELKINS TO 4 MILES NORTHWEST
  OF WESLEY TO 6 MILES EAST OF WEST FORK...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
  A SECOND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO THE WESTERN PART OF   
  WASHINGTON COUNTY AND WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF CINCINNATI AT 
  114 AM...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.


* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
  HUNTSVILLE...AURORA...WESLEY...KINGSTON...WITTER...JAPTON...
  MARBLE...FAYETTEVILLE...WEST FORK...LINCOLN...PRAIRIE GROVE...
  ELKINS...FARMINGTON...GREENLAND AND CINCINNATI.

WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH AND HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS 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 3614 9456 3601 9454 3590 9452 3585 9350
          3600 9341 3613 9330

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 24, 11:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford	49 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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.