Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches in 1997
Tornado Watch 79
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 1, 1997, 6:00 PM CST for 33 counties in Arkansas; 12 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 1, 1997, 6:00 PM CST (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 1997, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 45 counties
Clark County, AR, Clay County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Greene County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Little River County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Miller County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Saline County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 7:23 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Jackson, White, Woodruff | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 7:40 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Jefferson, Lonoke | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 7:48 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Craighead | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 1945 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 487 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.7
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 9:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Brazos and 30 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aransas, Bee, Brazoria, Calhoun, Duval, Fort Bend and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 9:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson and 10 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.