Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 1988
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Nov 15, 1988, 7:33 PM CST for Pope County, Arkansas. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 15, 1988, 7:33 PM CST (01:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 15, 1988, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pope County, AR
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 289 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
- 3579 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 371 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 15, 2:46 PM CST, 4 hours 47 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Nov 15, 3:00 PM CST, 4 hours 33 minutes before
SPECIA KFSM 152100 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT SMITH AR 300 PM CST TUE NOV 15 1988 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 480 FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AND PARTS OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST THIS TUESDAY EVENING. ALSO TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 481 FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTI 8 PM CST THIS TUESDAY EVENING... AT 255PM CST FT SMITH RADAR INDICATED A SOLID LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 25 MILES EAST OF CHANUTE KANSAS TO 25 MILES WEST OF SILOAM SPRINGS ARKANSAS TO NEAR MCALESTER OKLAHOMA TO NEAR DALLAS TEXAS. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT NEAR 40 MILES AN HOUR. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS. LARGE HAIL HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVED THROUGH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA. PERSONS IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN ARKANSAS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT AND STAY TUNED TO RADIO AND T. V STATIONS FOR MORE STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Local storm report, Nov 15, 4:39 PM CST, 2 hours 54 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT SMITH, AR
435 PM CST TUE NOV 15 1988
TIME EVENT COUNTY LOCATION
405 PM CST WIND BENTON AR BELLA VISTA...SHERIFF DEPT REPORTED
SEVERAL ROOFS OFF.
427 PM CST WIND BENTON AR HAM SPOTTER REPORTED 65 MPH WIND
IN BENTONVILLE.
430 PM CST HAIL CRAWFORD AR DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED 5 NORTH OF
VAN BUREN BY HAM SPOTTER.Local storm report, Nov 15, 5:33 PM CST, 2 hours before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT SMITH, AR
533 PM CST TUE NOV 15 1988
TIME EVENT COUNTY/STATE LOCATION
405 PM WIND DAMAGE BENTON/AR CENTERTON...SEVERAL TREES DOWN
ONE CHICKEN HOUSE DESTROYED.
405 PM WIND DAMAGE BENTON/AR BELLA VISTA...THREE TURKEY HOUSES
DESTROYED.
520 PM WIND LEFLORE/OK MUSE... 60 MPH WIND REPORTED BY
HAM SPOTTER.
529 PM HAIL POLK/AR 5 MILES SOUTH OF MENA...LARGER THAN
GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...DIME SIZE HAIL
; IN MENA.Local storm report, Nov 15, 5:57 PM CST, 1 hour 36 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT SMITH, AR
555 PM CST TUE NOV 15 1988
TIME EVENT COUNTY/STATE LOCATION
538PM HAIL POLK/AR LARGER THAN GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL FROM
U MENA TO 5 SOUTH OF MENA.
553PM HAIL POLK/AR 18 MILES NORTH OF MENA..BASEBALL SIZE
HAIL.Special weather statement, Nov 15, 7:24 PM CST, 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT SMITH AR 715 PM CST TUE NOV 15 1988 ..THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS HAVE BEEN CLEARED OF THE TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 480... ...BENTON...WASHINGTON...MADISON...CRAWFORD...SEBASTIAN...LOGAN JOHNSON..AND FRANKLIN... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SCOTT AND POLK COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS UNTIL 8 PM CST... AT 710 PM CST FT SMITH RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF DARDENELL ARKANSAS TO 10 MILES WEST OF MENA ARKANSAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 6:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery | 59 min |
| Nov 15, 6:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Yell | 57 min |
| Nov 15, 6:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton | 57 min |
| Nov 15, 6:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope | 52 min |
| Nov 15, 6:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Perry, Yell | 46 min |
| Nov 15, 7:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Conway | 55 min |
| Nov 15, 7:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Van Buren | 64 min |
| Nov 15, 7:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Faulkner, Van Buren | 56 min |
| Nov 15, 8:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Hot Spring | 43 min |
| Nov 15, 8:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Independence, Stone | 46 min |
| Nov 15, 8:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Ouachita | 51 min |
| Nov 15, 8:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Grant, Hot Spring, Saline | 59 min |
| Nov 15, 8:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lawrence, Sharp | 53 min |
| Nov 15, 9:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Dallas | 28 min |
| Nov 15, 9:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Pulaski | 48 min |
| Nov 15, 10:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleveland | 35 min |
| Nov 15, 10:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Prairie | 43 min |
| Nov 15, 11:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lincoln | 53 min |
| Nov 16, 1:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Desha, Drew | 47 min |
| Nov 16, 1:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Desha | 53 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.