Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 379, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 2003, 2:49 PM CDT for Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 41 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 18, 2003, 2:49 PM CDT (19:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2003, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Madison County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:51 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 nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 863 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1899 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KTSA 181949 SVRTUL ARC087-182030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 248 PM CDT MON AUG 18 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS * UNTIL 330 PM CDT * AT 248 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF HUNTSVILLE. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...HUNTSVILLE... WESLEY...HINDSVILLE...FORUM AND JAPTON. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES 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 3610 9361 3623 9376 3608 9401 3590 9380 $$
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 18, 1:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 1:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA 100 PM CDT MON AUG 18 2003 ISOLATED THUNDER OCCURRING IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AND HAVE UPDATED TO INCLUDE IN FORECAST. OTHER CHANGE IF FORECAST IS WIND WORDING AS WINDS HAVE BECOME DEFINITIVE FROM THE SOUTH IN MOST PLACES AND PROBABLY WILL ELSEWHERE AS THE DAY PROGRESSES. TEMPS NOT CHANGED MUCH. STILL LOOKS LIKE IT WILL BE AS HOT AS YESTERDAY. .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE. ABBAS
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 18, 12:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-191100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1230 PM CDT MON AUG 18 2003 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ALTHOUGH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR IN THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON...SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. THE MAIN STORY WILL BE THE HEAT WITH TEMPERATURES NEAR OR ABOVE 100 AND HEAT INDEXES TOPPING OUT IN THE 105 TO 110 DEGREE RANGE. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DISSIPATE AROUND SUNSET. 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...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. HOT AND MAINLY DRY WEATHER WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. .SPOTTER / EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT... WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA
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.