Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 270, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 5, 1998Dallas County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1998, 9:38 AM CDT for Dallas County, Arkansas. It was in force for 47 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, 9:38 AM CDT (14:38 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1998, 10:25 AM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Dallas County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 195 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 12:00Z on 1998-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1882 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 12:00Z on 1998-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 295 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1882 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-196 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
661 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
295 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
259 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
7.4

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The text

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

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, 12:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCalhoun, Ouachita66 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, 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

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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.