Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 2015
Tornado Warning 76, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Dec 26, 2015, 3:38 PM CST for Benton County, Arkansas. It was in force for 37 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
- Dec 26, 2015, 3:38 PM CST (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 26, 2015, 4:15 PM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County Benton County, AR
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 433 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 478 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 446 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
407
WFUS54 KTSA 262138
TORTSA
ARC007-262215-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.W.0076.151226T2138Z-151226T2215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
338 PM CST SAT DEC 26 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN BENTON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS...
* UNTIL 415 PM CST
* AT 338 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF DECATUR...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 35 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE
DAMAGE IS LIKELY.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE...
BELLA VISTA... PEA RIDGE...
GRAVETTE... DECATUR...
HIWASSE... MILLER...
SULPHUR SPRINGS...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3647 9409 3630 9456 3648 9462 3650 9460
3650 9412
TIME...MOT...LOC 2138Z 226DEG 32KT 3638 9452
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$2 follow-up statements
713
WWUS54 KTSA 262153
SVSTSA
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
353 PM CST SAT DEC 26 2015
ARC007-262215-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0076.000000T0000Z-151226T2215Z/
BENTON AR-
353 PM CST SAT DEC 26 2015
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM CST FOR
NORTHWESTERN BENTON COUNTY...
AT 352 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF GRAVETTE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35
MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE...
PEA RIDGE... GRAVETTE...
HIWASSE... SULPHUR SPRINGS...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3647 9409 3637 9446 3650 9447 3650 9412
TIME...MOT...LOC 2152Z 226DEG 32KT 3647 9440
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$417
WWUS54 KTSA 262208
SVSTSA
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
408 PM CST SAT DEC 26 2015
ARC007-262217-
/O.EXP.KTSA.TO.W.0076.000000T0000Z-151226T2215Z/
BENTON AR-
408 PM CST SAT DEC 26 2015
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN BENTON COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
415 PM CST...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
LAT...LON 3647 9409 3637 9446 3650 9447 3650 9412
TIME...MOT...LOC 2206Z 226DEG 32KT 3647 9440
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 25, 10:40 PM CST | River Flood Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 10 days |
| Dec 25, 10:40 PM CST | River Flood Warning | TSA | Franklin, Johnson, Logan | 10 days |
| Dec 25, 10:40 PM CST | River Flood Warning | TSA | Crawford | 8 days |
| Dec 25, 10:40 PM CST | River Flood Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin | 58 hr |
| Dec 25, 10:55 PM CST | River Flood Warning | TSA | Carroll | 64 hr |
| Dec 26, 12:40 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Sebastian | 50 min |
| Dec 26, 1:42 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Franklin, Madison | 48 min |
| Dec 26, 4:08 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | TSA | Benton | 12 hr |
| Dec 26, 5:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 29 min |
| Dec 26, 5:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.