Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 368, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2003, 7:40 AM CDT for Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 65 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
- Aug 3, 2003, 7:40 AM CDT (12:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2003, 8:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Madison 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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 1065 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1236 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
751 WUUS54 KTSA 031240 SVRTUL ARC087-031345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 740 AM CDT SUN AUG 3 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS * UNTIL 845 AM CDT * AT 740 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF WITTER...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ST PAUL... PETTIGREW...BOSTON AND WITTER. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 3599 9378 3581 9380 3573 9315 3598 9312 $$
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 Aug 3, 4:06 AM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 4:06 AM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA 406 AM CDT SUN AUG 3 2003 DISC... ------------------------------------------- SUBTLE FEATURES ALL TEAM TO PROVIDE ANOTHER BUSY NIGHT. MINOR WAVE IN FLOW TRANSPARENT AT H500 BUT HINTED AT IN THERMAL FIELD H700 LEVEL... ALONG WITH WEAK LLJ AND CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY RESIDUE...AND AMPLE MOISTURE YIELD POTENT THUNDER. SATELLITE / LIGHTNING DATA SHOW LINEAR NEBRASKA/KANSAS CONVECTION ALSO SLIDING SOUTH. PUSHED POPS INTO LIKELY CAT FOR MORNING HOURS MOST PLACES. 00Z GFS QPF BULLSEYE VALID 18Z / 00Z INITIALLY REGARDED AS OVER-JUICED FEEDBACK...HOWEVER GIVEN THE CURRENT RADAR PICTURE... LOOKING BETTER ALL THE TIME. GFS EVEN DEVELOPS MINOR H500 00Z KINK AROUND TXK. MAX TEMPS CLOSER MET THAN MAV AGAIN TODAY. EVENTUALLY GREAT LAKES LOW HEADS FOR QUEBEC AND WEST COAST LOW GIVES A BOOST TO HEIGHTS OVER ROCKIES. AS HEIGHTS BUILD..THE BULK OF NORTHWEST FLOW WOES WILL MIGRATE EAST. GW -------------------------------------------- TUL 97 75 94 76 / 70 40 20 20 FSM 93 72 92 74 / 70 30 20 20 MLC 93 73 93 74 / 60 20 20 20 BVO 96 70 93 73 / 50 40 20 20 FYV 87 68 87 69 / 60 40 20 20 BYV 90 70 86 70 / 50 30 20 20 MKO 95 74 93 74 / 70 30 20 20 MIO 94 72 91 72 / 50 30 20 20 F10 96 74 94 74 / 70 20 20 20 HHW 93 74 94 74 / 60 20 20 20 FORECAST ID= 21 .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 3, 6:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-041100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 600 AM CDT SUN AUG 03 2003 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK ...CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS MORNING... ...SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... ANOTHER COMPLEX OF STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS EARLY THIS MORNING. LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG AN EXISTING OUTFLOW BOUNDARY...MAINLY WEST OF HIGHWAY 75. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL DIMINISH LATER THIS MORNING AS THE LOW LEVEL JET WEAKENS. HOWEVER...ADDITIONAL STORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON ALONG ANY EXISTING OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES AS THE ATMOSPHERE DESTABILIZES WITH DAYTIME HEATING. ANOTHER ROUND OF STORMS IS POSSIBLE AGAIN TONIGHT AS THE LOW LEVEL JET STRENGTHENS AND INTERACTS WITH THE SURFACE BOUNDARIES IN PLACE. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. WARNING PROBABILITIES FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES CAN BE FOUND IN THE OUTLOOK SECTION AT: WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA. GIVEN PROBABILITIES REPRESENT THE POTENTIAL FOR A WARNING TO BE ISSUED AT YOUR LOCATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES INTO TUESDAY AS A NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT REMAINS OVER THE AREA. HIGH PRESSURE WILL RETURN BY MIDWEEK AND BRING A RETURN TO HOT AND DRY WEATHER. .SPOTTER / EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT...SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE REQUIRED ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS EARLY THIS MORNING...AND MAY BE REQUIRED AGAIN TONIGHT. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT... WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 2:33 AM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before
OKZ054>055-057>076-031300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 233 AM CDT SUN AUG 3 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 833 UNTIL 800 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS: IN OKLAHOMA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 23 COUNTIES... IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA: CHEROKEE MUSKOGEE OKFUSKEE SEQUOYAH IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA: ADAIR CRAIG CREEK DELAWARE MAYES OKMULGEE OSAGE OTTAWA PAWNEE ROGERS TULSA WAGONER WASHINGTON NOWATA IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA: HASKELL LATIMER LE FLORE MCINTOSH PITTSBURG THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF BARTLESVILLE...BRISTOW...BROKEN ARROW... CLAREMORE...EUFAULA...JAY...MCALESTER...MIAMI...MUSKOGEE...OKEMAH... OKMULGEE...PAWHUSKA...PAWNEE...POTEAU...PRYOR...SALLISAW...SAND SPRINGS...STIGLER...STILWELL...TAHLEQUAH...TULSA...VINITA...WAGONER AND WILBURTON.
Local storm report, Aug 3, 4:30 AM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
0430 AM CDT SUN AUG 03 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0400 AM DEPEW OK GOLFBALL HAIL
08/03/03 CREEK REPORTED BY BRISTOW EMLocal storm report, Aug 3, 7:25 AM CDT, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
0725 AM CDT SUN AUG 03 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0551 AM VAN BUREN AR WIND DAMAGE
08/03/03 CRAWFORD LARGE TREE LIMBS AND POWER
LINES DOWN...REPORTED BY
VAN BUREN PD
0549 AM FORT SMITH AR WIND DAMAGE
08/03/03 SEBASTIAN LARGE TREE LIMBS AND POWER
LINES DOWN...REPORTED BY
FORT SMITH PD
0311 AM DRUMRIGHT OK 1.75 IN HAIL
08/03/03 CREEK REPORTED BY DRUMRIGHT PD
0213 AM CLEVELAND OK 0.88 IN HAIL
08/03/03 PAWNEE REPORTED BY CLEVELAND PD
0157 AM 6 W HOMINY OK 1.75 IN HAIL
08/03/03 OSAGE REPORTED BY HOMINY PD
RBDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 5:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 54 min |
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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.