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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 5, 1998Calhoun County, Ouachita County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1998, 12:19 AM CDT for Calhoun County, Ouachita County, Arkansas. It was in force for 66 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 1998, 12:19 AM CDT (05:19 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1998, 1:25 AM CDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

Counties Calhoun County, AR, Ouachita County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 4, 11:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 157 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 1998-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2429 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 1998-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 2 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2429 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1497 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
3.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 4, 7:58 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
758 PM CDT THU JUN 4 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0730 PM    8 W CLARKSVILLE           AR   1 INCH HAIL
06/04/98   JOHNSON                        DIME TO QUARTER SIZE
                                          HAIL...TREES
                                          DOWN...BARRELS BLOWN OVER
                                          IN HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION
                                          FROM 8 W CLARKSVILLE TO
                                          EAST SIDE OF CLARKSVILLE
                                          830 TO 847 PM

0735 PM    6 N CLARKSVILLE           AR   .75 INCH HAIL
06/04/98   JOHNSON

0735 PM    3 N CLARKSVILLE           AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/04/98   JOHNSON

0736 PM                              AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/04/98   JOHNSON                        QUARTER TO GOLF BALL SIZE
                                          HAIL IN WOODLAND AND LONG
                                          PINE AREAS.

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Local storm report, Jun 4, 8:16 PM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
816 PM CDT THU JUN 4 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0723 PM    COAL HILL                 AR   85 MPH TSTM GUST
06/04/98   JOHNSON

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 7:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLogan, Pope60 min
Jun 4, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKVan Buren65 min
Jun 4, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway48 min
Jun 4, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson, Newton61 min
Jun 4, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk65 min
Jun 4, 10:07 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKPolk48 min
Jun 4, 10:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMontgomery, Pike48 min
Jun 4, 11:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKVan Buren34 min
Jun 4, 11:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne32 min
Jun 4, 11:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland, Hot Spring, Saline64 min
Jun 4, 11:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway, Perry64 min
Jun 4, 11:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDallas, Grant63 min
Jun 4, 11:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner, Pulaski63 min
Jun 5, 12:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence50 min
Jun 5, 12:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite66 min
Jun 5, 12:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWoodruff63 min
Jun 5, 12:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleveland, Jefferson, Lonoke62 min
Jun 5, 12:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPrairie62 min
Jun 5, 1:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas63 min
Jun 5, 1:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLincoln63 min
Jun 5, 1:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMonroe49 min
Jun 5, 1:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDesha65 min
Jun 5, 9:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDallas47 min
Jun 5, 10:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLincoln32 min
Jun 5, 10:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas47 min
Jun 5, 11:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKScott37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.