Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 47, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Oct 5, 1998, 5:55 PM CDT for Polk County, Arkansas. It was in force for 65 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, 5:55 PM CDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 5, 1998, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Polk County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 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.
263 WFUS1 KLIT 052254 RRA TORLIT ARC113-052355- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 555 PM CDT MON OCT 5 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... POLK COUNTY IN WESTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 552 PM CDT... DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST NORTHWEST OF WICKES IN POLK COUNTY MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN OPEN COUNTRY. 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. 22/25
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, 5:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Polk | 31 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.