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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at May 6, 1998, 11:04 PM CDT for Conway County, Arkansas. It was in force for 36 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
- May 6, 1998, 11:04 PM CDT (04:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 1998, 11:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Conway County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
112 WFUS1 KLIT 070406 RRA TORLIT ARC029-070440- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1104 PM CDT WED MAY 6 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CONWAY COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS * UNTIL 1140 PM CDT * AT 1104 PM CDT... DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF MORRILTON OR 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF MOUNT OLIVE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... MOUNT OLIVE AROUND 1105 PM CDT... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...HEAD INDOORS NOW. GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. PUT AS MANY WALLS BETWEEN YOURSELF AND THE OUTDOORS AS YOU CAN. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES NOW. MOVE TO A STRONG BUILDING OR UNDERGROUND SHELTER. IF THERE ARE NO BUILDINGS NEARBY...LAY IN A DITCH TO AVOID FLYING DEBRIS. BUT BEWARE OF RISING WATER. 48/44
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
Special weather statement, May 6, 7:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 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, 3 hours 5 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, 9:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Fulton | 49 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, 11:12 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 |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.