Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 430, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1998, 5:10 PM CDT for Drew County, Arkansas. It was in force for 50 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
- Jul 24, 1998, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1998, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Drew County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 1585 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 747 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
644 WUUS1 KLIT 242208 RRA SVRLIT ARC043-242300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 510 PM CDT FRI JUL 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN DREW COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 509 PM CDT... DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTH OF MONTICELLO OR 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PLEASANT GROVE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN MOSTLY IN RURAL AREAS BETWEEN LACEY AND TROY. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IN THE WARNING AREA IS STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS. SOME WIND DAMAGE MAY OCCUR...SUCH AS DOWNED TREES OR TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES. THE STORM MAY ALSO PRODUCE HAIL IN SOME AREAS. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...GO INDOORS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. 34/46
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton | 34 min |
| Jul 24, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton | 30 min |
| Jul 24, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Perry, Yell | 50 min |
| Jul 24, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland | 34 min |
| Jul 24, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland | 46 min |
| Jul 24, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski, Saline | 47 min |
| Jul 24, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Scott | 36 min |
| Jul 24, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 48 min |
| Jul 24, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleveland | 48 min |
| Jul 24, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant | 48 min |
| Jul 24, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun | 48 min |
| Jul 24, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark | 51 min |
| Jul 24, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Dallas | 49 min |
| Jul 24, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Ouachita | 51 min |
| Jul 24, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Dallas | 48 min |
| Jul 24, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley | 50 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.