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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1998, 7:53 PM CDT for Baxter County, Arkansas. It was in force for 47 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
- Jun 13, 1998, 7:53 PM CDT (00:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1998, 8:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baxter County, AR
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 1382 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1700 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 375 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 28.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
056 WFUS1 KLIT 140051 RRA TORLIT ARC005-140140- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 753 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BAXTER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS * UNTIL 840 PM CDT * AT 750 PM CDT... DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF MOUNTAIN HOME MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... CLARKRIDGE AROUND 800 PM CDT... MOUNTAIN HOME AROUND 805 PM CDT... GAMALIEL AROUND 820 PM CDT... HENDERSON AROUND 825 PM CDT... SALESVILLE AROUND 830 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...LIE IN A DITCH TO AVOID FLYING DEBRIS. BUT BEWARE OF RISING WATER. 16/32 &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Marion | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 7:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Marion | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 8:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Baxter | 36 min |
| Jun 13, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Izard | 34 min |
| Jun 13, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Sharp | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Prairie | 48 min |
| Jun 14, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant | 32 min |
| Jun 14, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe | 52 min |
| Jun 14, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Jefferson | 32 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.