Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2003, 5:48 PM CDT for Crawford County, Washington County, Arkansas. It was in force for 57 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
- May 6, 2003, 5:48 PM CDT (22:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2003, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Crawford County, AR, Washington County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 11:40 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -216 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1877 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
872 WUUS54 KTSA 062248 SVRTUL ARC033-143-062345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 548 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 548 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 3 MILES SOUTH OF CINCINNATI TO 9 MILES WEST OF FIGURE FIVE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE... FAYETTEVILLE...SPRINGDALE...WINSLOW...WEST FORK...LINCOLN...PRAIRIE GROVE...ELKINS...FARMINGTON...BLACKBURN...STRICKLER...BRENTWOOD... GREENLAND...CINCINNATI...MOUNTAINBURG...VAN BUREN...ALMA... CEDARVILLE...NATURAL DAM...CHESTER...DYER...FIGURE FIVE...RUDY AND LEE CREEK. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 3608 9454 3541 9449 3550 9409 3623 9395
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 42 min |
| May 6, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 46 min |
| May 6, 6:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Washington | 43 min |
| May 6, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin | 61 min |
| May 6, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Madison | 58 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.