Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 591
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 9, 1997, 5:00 PM CDT for 48 counties in Arkansas; Coahoma County, Tunica County, Mississippi. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 1997, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1997, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 50 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Lee County, AR, Logan County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Newton County, AR, Perry County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sharp County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Yell County, AR, Coahoma County, MS, Tunica County, MS
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski, Saline | 48 min |
| Jul 9, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 51 min |
| Jul 9, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Jefferson | 61 min |
| Jul 9, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Yell | 48 min |
| Jul 9, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Woodruff | 34 min |
| Jul 9, 6:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Pulaski, Saline | 2 hr |
| Jul 9, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Perry, Saline | 49 min |
| Jul 9, 7:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Yell | 2 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 257 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
- 2541 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 749 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 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.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Mississippi, 1997Every severe thunderstorm watch in 1997
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.