Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches in 1997
Tornado Watch 456
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 16, 1997, 7:30 PM CDT for 28 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1997, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 1997, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties
Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Conway County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Logan County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Pope County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Yell County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 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
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Yell | 64 min |
| Jun 16, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 63 min |
| Jun 16, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson, Pulaski | 46 min |
| Jun 16, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 11:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 11:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Garland, Grant, Hot Spring | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 2912 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1044 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Franklin, Howard, Little River, Polk, Scott and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 16, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bradley, Columbia, Lafayette, Miller, Union | 7 hr |
| Jun 17, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crittenden, Desha, Phillips | 5 hr |
| Jun 17, 6:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Desha, Drew | 6 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.