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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 13, 1998Baxter County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1998, 8:39 PM CDT for Baxter County, Arkansas. It was in force for 36 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 13, 1998, 8:39 PM CDT (01:39 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 1998, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 36 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 01:43 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 13, 9:00 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Henderson, 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 nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 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.

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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

392 
WFUS1 KLIT 140140 RRA
TORLIT
ARC005-140215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
839 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 915 PM CDT

* AT 838 PM CDT... DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE
  TORNADO JUST NORTH OF MOUNTAIN HOME MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
GAMALIEL                     AROUND 900 PM CDT...
HENDERSON                    AROUND 905 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.

16/208

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, 7:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Baxter	47 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.