Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches in 1997
Tornado Watch 339
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 27, 1997, 3:45 PM CDT for 46 counties in Arkansas; Bowie County, Cass County, Morris County, Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1997, 3:45 PM CDT (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1997, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 49 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Conway County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Drew County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Independence County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Lee County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Little River County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Miller County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Pike County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Stone County, AR, Union County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Bowie County, TX, Cass County, TX, Morris County, TX
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:48 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
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass | 46 min |
| May 27, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Stone | 46 min |
| May 27, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie | 59 min |
| May 27, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne | 35 min |
| May 27, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 47 min |
| May 27, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 48 min |
| May 27, 8:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Pulaski | 33 min |
| May 27, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White | 50 min |
| May 27, 8:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | White | 33 min |
| May 27, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 45 min |
| May 27, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White | 49 min |
| May 27, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 47 min |
| May 27, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Prairie | 50 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 1358 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 824 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
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 26, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Cleburne and 31 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 12:15 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Garland and 18 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Little River | 5 hr |
| May 27, 2:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 37 more | 5 hr |
| May 26, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Fannin and 13 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Bell, Brazos, Camp, Cherokee and 33 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Brazos and 31 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, 1997Tornado Watches in Texas, 1997Every tornado 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.