Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 1998, 6:19 PM CST for Jackson County, White County, Woodruff County, Arkansas. It was in force for 46 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
- Mar 27, 1998, 6:19 PM CST (00:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 1998, 7:05 PM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jackson County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 7:13 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Newport Muni Arpt, AR | Thunderstorm winds damaged an airplane at the airport in Newport. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 2:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Mar 27, 4:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 764 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 760 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 320 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 6:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Van Buren | 50 min |
| Mar 27, 7:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Sharp | 47 min |
| Mar 27, 7:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence | 32 min |
| Mar 27, 8:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne | 32 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.