Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 521, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 1998, 2:36 PM CDT for Polk County, Arkansas. It was in force for 49 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
- Aug 9, 1998, 2:36 PM CDT (19:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 1998, 3:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Polk County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 968 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1163 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLIT 091936 RRA SVRLIT ARC113-092025- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 236 PM CDT SUN AUG 9 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... POLK COUNTY IN WESTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 325 PM CDT * AT 235 PM CDT... DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF MENA OR 3 MILES NORTH OF ACORN MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... ACORN AROUND 240 PM CDT... MENA AROUND 245 PM CDT... 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. 44/206
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, Aug 9, 9:56 AM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
956 AM CDT SUN AUG 09 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0949 AM HARRISON AR LIGHTNING
08/09/98 BOONE LIGHTNING STRUCK A HOUSE
AND SET IT ON FIRE. POWER
POLES DOWN BY LIGHTNING
& STRIKE. REPORTED BY HARRISON
PD.
48Local storm report, Aug 9, 9:56 AM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
956 AM CDT SUN AUG 09 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0949 AM HARRISON AR LIGHTNING
08/09/98 BOONE LIGHTNING STRUCK A HOUSE
AND SET IT ON FIRE. POWER
POLES DOWN BY LIGHTNING
& STRIKE. REPORTED BY HARRISON
PD.
48Local storm report, Aug 9, 10:11 AM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1011 AM CDT SUN AUG 09 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0825 AM BELLEFONTE AR .75 INCH HAIL
08/09/98 BOONE REPORTED BY HARRISON PD.Local storm report, Aug 9, 10:33 AM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1033 AM CDT SUN AUG 09 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1016 AM HARRISON AR WIND DAMAGE
08/09/98 BOONE ESTIMATED WINDS FROM 40 TO
50 MPH BLEW A TREE ONTO A
HOUSE AND SOME STREET
SIGNS WERE BLOWN DOWN ALL
ON THE NORTH SIDE OF
HARRISON. FROM HARRISON
PD.Local storm report, Aug 9, 11:24 AM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1124 AM CDT SUN AUG 09 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1016 AM HARRISON AR WIND DAMAGE
08/09/98 BOONE EST. 50-60 MPH WINDS.
OUTBUILDING DESTROYED. 2X4
EMBEDDED IN ROOF AND WALL.
NUMEROUS TREES DOWN.
SHINGLES AND SIDING
MISSING. NUMEROUS STREET
SIGNS DOWN. REPORTED BY
COUNTY OES.The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleveland | 50 min |
| Aug 8, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter | 35 min |
| Aug 8, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy | 48 min |
| Aug 9, 8:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone | 34 min |
| Aug 9, 11:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Newton | 2 hr |
| Aug 9, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery | 34 min |
| Aug 9, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Scott | 49 min |
| Aug 9, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery | 45 min |
| Aug 9, 3:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Polk | 2 hr |
| Aug 9, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 51 min |
| Aug 9, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery | 51 min |
| Aug 9, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence | 36 min |
| Aug 9, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland | 49 min |
| Aug 9, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark | 49 min |
| Aug 9, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 47 min |
| Aug 9, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski, Saline | 50 min |
| Aug 9, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Ouachita | 50 min |
| Aug 9, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 48 min |
| Aug 9, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 49 min |
| Aug 9, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Prairie | 49 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.