Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 46, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Oct 5, 1998, 5:19 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Polk County, Arkansas. It was in force for 31 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 5, 1998, 5:19 PM CDT (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 5, 1998, 5:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Montgomery County, AR, Polk County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 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
- 43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -531 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 958 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 343 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLIT 052218 RRA TORLIT ARC097-113-052250- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 519 PM CDT MON OCT 5 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... POLK COUNTY IN WESTERN ARKANSAS MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN WESTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 550 PM CDT * AT 516 PM CDT... DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MOUNT IDA OR 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SILVER MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. IN ADDITION...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED NEAR SHADY MOUNTAIN IN POLK COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... SILVER AROUND 520 PM CDT... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION...A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED. 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 O*R UNDERGROUND SHELTER. 206/25 &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk | 47 min |
| Oct 5, 4:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Polk, Scott | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Polk | 65 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.