Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 24, 2007, 10:55 AM CST for Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report 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
- Feb 24, 2007, 10:55 AM CST (16:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2007, 11:29 AM CST
- In force
- 34 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), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:55 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 | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 11:06 AM CST | HAIL 0.75 | Pettigrew, AR |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 1205 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 552 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 411 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 241655
SVRTSA
ARC087-241800-
/O.NEW.KTSA.SV.W.0002.070224T1655Z-070224T1800Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1055 AM CST SAT FEB 24 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
* UNTIL NOON CST
* AT 1051 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL
AND DAMAGING WINDS TO 70 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A
LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SAINT PAUL TO 11 MILES
SOUTH OF SAINT PAUL TO 23 MILES SOUTH OF SAINT PAUL...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 70 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...SAINT
PAUL...JAPTON...PETTIGREW...WITTER...AURORA...BOSTON...KINGSTON AND
MARBLE.
A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. TORNADOES CAN
DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH
OF THIS STORM...BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
TAKE COVER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. TAKE COVER
ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 3578 9400 3570 9385 3578 9354 3608 9341
3622 9364
$$2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS54 KTSA 241710
SVSTSA
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1110 AM CST SAT FEB 24 2007
ARC087-241800-
/O.CON.KTSA.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070224T1800Z/
MADISON AR-
1110 AM CST SAT FEB 24 2007
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST FOR
EASTERN MADISON COUNTY...
AT 1108 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY
SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS TO 70 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED
ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM WITTER TO BOSTON TO 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
PETTIGREW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...RED STAR...
WEATHERS...KINGSTON AND MARBLE.
TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. TAKE COVER
ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 3589 9381 3578 9376 3578 9354 3608 9341
3622 9364
$$000
WWUS54 KTSA 241729
SVSTSA
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1129 AM CST SAT FEB 24 2007
ARC087-241739-
/O.CAN.KTSA.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070224T1800Z/
MADISON AR-
1129 AM CST SAT FEB 24 2007
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MADISON COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...THEREFORE THE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 3589 9381 3578 9376 3578 9354 3608 9341
3622 9364
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 6:01 PM CST | Wind Advisory | TSA | Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington | 34 hr |
| Feb 24, 4:03 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | TSA | Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington | 16 hr |
| Feb 24, 10:27 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Franklin, Sebastian | 63 min |
| Feb 24, 10:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford | 33 min |
| Feb 24, 11:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll | 27 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.