Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 20, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at May 6, 1998, 11:22 PM CDT for Garland County, Arkansas. It was in force for 48 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, 11:22 PM CDT (04:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1998, 12:10 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Garland County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:25 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, 11:31 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Hot Spgs, AR | The tornado touched down along Highway 70 near the entrance to the Hot Springs Airport. A number of trees were knocked down in the yard of a residence at this location. The storm continued to move east southeast onto the airport property where a couple of tr |
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 nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 2409 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 858 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
205 WFUS1 KLIT 070423 RRA TORLIT ARC051-070510- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1122 PM CDT WED MAY 6 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GARLAND COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS * UNTIL 1210 AM CDT * AT 1121 PM CDT... DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF HOT SPRINGS OR 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOUNTAIN PINE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... HOT SPRINGS AROUND 1135 PM CDT... RED OAK AROUND 1135 PM CDT... FOUNTAIN LAKE AROUND 1135 PM CDT... LONSDALE AROUND 1155 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 23 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 23 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, 11:04 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, 11:28 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.