Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 42, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 1998, 2:05 AM CDT for Polk County, Arkansas. It was in force for 35 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 19, 1998, 2:05 AM CDT (07:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1998, 2:40 AM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Polk County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 2:25 AM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Mena, 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
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 1992 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1865 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLIT 190705 RRA TORLIT ARC113-190740- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 205 AM CDT FRI JUN 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... POLK COUNTY IN WESTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 240 AM CDT * AT 204 AM CDT... DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MENA MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... NUNLEY AROUND 225 AM CDT... SHADY AROUND 230 AM CDT... BOARD CAMP AROUND 235 AM CDT... A DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED TORNADO MEANS THAT THERE IS STRONG ROTATION WITHIN A STORMZ. THE STORM MAY NOT BE PRODUCING A TORNADO AT THE MOMENT...BUT IS EXPECTED TO DURING THE WARNING PERIOD. FOR YOUR SAFETY...GO INDOORS NOW TO AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 46
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Scott | 47 min |
| Jun 18, 11:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk, Scott | 48 min |
| Jun 19, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Yell | 49 min |
| Jun 19, 12:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland | 50 min |
| Jun 19, 1:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Hot Spring, Saline | 49 min |
| Jun 19, 1:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 34 min |
| Jun 19, 1:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant | 49 min |
| Jun 19, 1:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 48 min |
| Jun 19, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk | 50 min |
| Jun 19, 2:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson | 46 min |
| Jun 19, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Prairie | 48 min |
| Jun 19, 2:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery | 46 min |
| Jun 19, 2:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pike | 49 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.