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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Little Rock, AR

October 2, 1998Ouachita County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Oct 2, 1998, 6:17 PM CDT for Ouachita County, Arkansas. It was in force for 33 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
Oct 2, 1998, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
Expired
Oct 2, 1998, 6:50 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Ouachita County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 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

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 148 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 1998-10-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 1998-10-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 133 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1236 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

259 
WFUS1 KLIT 022318 RRA
TORLIT
ARC103-022350-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
617 PM CDT FRI OCT 2 1998


THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN OUACHITA COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 650 PM CDT

* AT 617 PM CDT... DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE
  TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CAMDEN OR 4 MILES WEST OF JOYCE
  CITY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
JOYCE CITY                   AROUND 620 PM CDT...

A DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED TORNADO MEANS THAT THERE IS STRONG
ROTATION WITHIN A STORM. 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.

29/22

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 2, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMonroe49 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Arkansas, 1998Every tornado warning in 1998Tornadoes in 1998

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.