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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 320, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 19, 1998Pike County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1998, 2:51 AM CDT for Pike County, Arkansas. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 19, 1998, 2:51 AM CDT (07:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 1998, 3:40 AM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Pike County, AR

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 19, 3:30 AM CDTThunderstorm Wind 50Murfreesboro, AR

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 187 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 1998-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1992 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 1998-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 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
1992 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1865 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.1

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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 18, 10:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLogan, Scott47 min
Jun 18, 11:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk, Scott48 min
Jun 19, 12:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMontgomery, Yell49 min
Jun 19, 12:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland50 min
Jun 19, 1:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKHot Spring, Saline49 min
Jun 19, 1:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski34 min
Jun 19, 1:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGrant49 min
Jun 19, 1:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLonoke48 min
Jun 19, 1:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk50 min
Jun 19, 2:05 AM CDTTornado WarningLZKPolk35 min
Jun 19, 2:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJefferson46 min
Jun 19, 2:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPrairie48 min
Jun 19, 2:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMontgomery46 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.