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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 9, 1998Scott County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at May 9, 1998, 5:21 PM CDT for Scott County, Arkansas. It was in force for 64 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 9, 1998, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 1998, 6:25 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

County Scott County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 9, 6:14 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Cedar Creek, AR	Thunderstorm winds blew off a portion of the roof of a chicken house.

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 9, 12:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 228 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1409 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 118 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 25 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.

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 9, 11:59 AM CDT, 5 hours 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 9, 5:15 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 9:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone	49 min
May 9, 9:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Marion	52 min
May 9, 9:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter	28 min
May 9, 1:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone	34 min
May 9, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan	47 min
May 9, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Newton	50 min
May 9, 2:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pope	32 min
May 9, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone	48 min
May 9, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter	35 min
May 9, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton, Izard	49 min
May 9, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pike	47 min
May 9, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Scott	61 min
May 9, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton, Izard, Sharp	50 min
May 9, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Searcy	47 min
May 9, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark	66 min
May 9, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Stone	66 min
May 9, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Ouachita	62 min
May 9, 6:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Clark	47 min
May 9, 6:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Hot Spring	62 min
May 9, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Montgomery	64 min
May 9, 6:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Ouachita	47 min
May 9, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun	66 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.