Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 358
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 30, 1997, 12:00 PM CDT for 50 counties in Arkansas; Bowie County, Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 1997, 12:00 PM CDT (17:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 1997, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 51 counties
Baxter County, AR, Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Conway County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Logan County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Miller County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Newton County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Stone County, AR, Union County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, Yell County, AR, Bowie County, TX
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:01 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.
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 1:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 63 min |
| May 30, 1:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark | 66 min |
| May 30, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, White | 51 min |
| May 30, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland | 64 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 925 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Chicot, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 16 more | 6 hr |
| May 29, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Armstrong, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Carson and 36 more | 6 hr |
| May 29, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Foard and 10 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 6:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bosque, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Callahan, Coleman, Collin, Comanche and 30 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Coke and 24 more | 5 hr |
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.