Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at May 6, 1998, 9:46 PM CDT for Fulton 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
- May 6, 1998, 9:46 PM CDT (02:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 1998, 10:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fulton County, AR
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 9:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Mammoth Spg, AR | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees. One house sustained damage after a tree fell on it. Two outbuildings were also destroyed. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 6, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 1358 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1166 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, May 6, 4:46 PM CDT, 5 hours before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
446 PM CDT WED MAY 6 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0345 PM PYATT AR .88 INCH HAIL
05/06/98 MARION HAIL LASTED ABOUT 5
MINUTES. REPORT FROM THE
PUBLIC.
0433 PM CLARKRIDGE AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/98 BAXTER REPORT FROM THE PUBLIC.
44Local storm report, May 6, 4:46 PM CDT, 5 hours before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
446 PM CDT WED MAY 6 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0345 PM PYATT AR .88 INCH HAIL
05/06/98 MARION HAIL LASTED ABOUT 5
MINUTES. REPORT FROM THE
PUBLIC.
0433 PM CLARKRIDGE AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/98 BAXTER REPORT FROM THE PUBLIC.
44Special weather statement, May 6, 7:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
ARZ003>008-012>017-021>025-030>034-037>041-070700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 759 PM CDT WED MAY 6 1998 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 2 AM FOR WEST AND NORTH ARKANSAS... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 297 IS IN EFFECT FOR A GOOD PART OF WEST AND NORTH ARKANSAS TONIGHT UNTIL 2 AM CDT. VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO THE STATE FROM OKLAHOMA AND MISSOURI...SOME PRODUCING LARGE AND DANGEROUS HAIL AND THE POSSIBILITY OF TORNADOES. THE AREA OF STRONG STORMS WILL MOVE EASTWARD THROUGH THE NORTHERN PART OF THE STATE UNTIL PAST MIDNIGHT. EVERYONE IN THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN PART OF THE STATE SHOULD KEEP MONITORING RADIO...TV...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UP TO DATE WARNINGS. BE PREPARED TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION AND COVER SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN. 16
Special weather statement, May 6, 7:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
ARZ003>008-012>017-021>025-030>034-037>041-070700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 759 PM CDT WED MAY 6 1998 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 2 AM FOR WEST AND NORTH ARKANSAS... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 297 IS IN EFFECT FOR A GOOD PART OF WEST AND NORTH ARKANSAS TONIGHT UNTIL 2 AM CDT. VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO THE STATE FROM OKLAHOMA AND MISSOURI...SOME PRODUCING LARGE AND DANGEROUS HAIL AND THE POSSIBILITY OF TORNADOES. THE AREA OF STRONG STORMS WILL MOVE EASTWARD THROUGH THE NORTHERN PART OF THE STATE UNTIL PAST MIDNIGHT. EVERYONE IN THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN PART OF THE STATE SHOULD KEEP MONITORING RADIO...TV...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UP TO DATE WARNINGS. BE PREPARED TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION AND COVER SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN. 16
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone | 48 min |
| May 6, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Scott | 64 min |
| May 6, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Marion | 47 min |
| May 6, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson | 46 min |
| May 6, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter | 50 min |
| May 6, 9:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Scott | 47 min |
| May 6, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton | 65 min |
| May 6, 9:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Montgomery | 47 min |
| May 6, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Pope | 64 min |
| May 6, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Yell | 64 min |
| May 6, 9:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Yell | 47 min |
| May 6, 10:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Pope | 50 min |
| May 6, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway | 51 min |
| May 6, 10:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Garland, Perry, Saline | 36 min |
| May 6, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery | 47 min |
| May 6, 11:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Conway | 36 min |
| May 6, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Sharp | 48 min |
| May 6, 11:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 48 min |
| May 6, 11:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Garland | 48 min |
| May 6, 11:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Saline | 47 min |
| May 6, 11:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 49 min |
| May 6, 11:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 49 min |
| May 7, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant, Saline | 35 min |
| May 7, 12:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Grant, Saline | 35 min |
| May 7, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski, Saline | 47 min |
| May 7, 12:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White | 62 min |
| May 7, 12:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 33 min |
| May 7, 12:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson | 48 min |
| May 7, 12:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson | 34 min |
| May 7, 1:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 34 min |
| May 7, 2:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Prairie | 32 min |
| May 7, 2:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe | 48 min |
| May 7, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark | 47 min |
| May 7, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas | 51 min |
| May 7, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pike | 50 min |
| May 7, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark | 48 min |
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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.