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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Little Rock, AR

April 3, 1998Faulkner County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 1998, 12:32 AM CST for Faulkner County, Arkansas. It was in force for 48 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
Apr 3, 1998, 12:32 AM CST (06:32 UTC)
Expired
Apr 3, 1998, 1:20 AM CST
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Faulkner County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 220 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, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1998-04-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 15 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, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1998-04-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-275 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2458 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
Apr 2, 11:19 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMonroe46 min
Apr 3, 12:02 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway48 min
Apr 3, 10:35 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBoone65 min
Apr 3, 10:56 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope34 min
Apr 3, 11:04 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKNewton51 min
Apr 3, 11:11 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKVan Buren49 min
Apr 3, 11:44 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSearcy51 min
Apr 3, 11:55 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne50 min
Apr 3, 12:01 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKVan Buren29 min
Apr 3, 12:28 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJackson47 min
Apr 3, 12:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBoone49 min
Apr 3, 1:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBoone33 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.