Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 34, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1998, 11:44 PM CDT for Logan County, Arkansas. It was in force for 66 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
- Jun 8, 1998, 11:44 PM CDT (04:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1998, 12:50 AM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Logan County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 12:00 AM CDT | Hail 1 | Sugar Grove, AR |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 11:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 554 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 525 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 624 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLIT 090444 RRA TORLIT ARC083-090550- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1144 PM CDT MON JUN 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LOGAN COUNTY IN WESTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 1250 AM CDT * AT 1143 PM CDT... DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 15 MILES WEST OF BOONEVILLE OR 4 MILES WEST OF LUCAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... LUCAS AROUND 1150 PM CDT... IONE AROUND 1155 PM CDT... BOONEVILLE AROUND 1205 AM CDT... MAGAZINE AROUND 1220 AM CDT... BLUE MOUNTAIN AROUND 1230 AM 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 MDOBILE 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. 48/209
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, Jun 8, 10:52 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
ARZ021-022-030-031-037>042-054-090845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1052 PM CDT MON JUN 8 1998 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM CDT FOR 14 COUNTIES IN WESTERN ARKANSAS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM CDT FOR EIGHT COUNTIES IN NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS. A STRONG TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM HAS BEEN MOVING EAST ACROSS OKLAHOMA AND WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN ARKANSAS SHORTLY AFTER 11 PM CDT. WINDS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AS THE THUNDERSTORM MOVES INTO WESTERN ARKANSAS. OTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST ACROSS NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA AND MAY REACH INTO NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS AFTER MIDNIGHT. PEOPLE IN NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS SHOULD REVIEW THEIR SEVERE WEATHER SAFETY RULES AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THUNDERSTORMS ARE SEEN APPROACHING FROM THE WEST OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. 29
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 11:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Scott | 66 min |
| Jun 9, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Scott | 33 min |
| Jun 9, 12:44 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Logan | 61 min |
| Jun 9, 1:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Yell | 61 min |
| Jun 9, 2:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Perry, Yell | 61 min |
| Jun 9, 2:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway | 48 min |
| Jun 9, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope | 50 min |
| Jun 9, 3:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway | 52 min |
| Jun 9, 4:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 62 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.