Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 263, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1998, 1:17 AM CDT for Lee County, St. Francis County, Arkansas. It was in force for 48 min. 2 reports 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 5, 1998, 1:17 AM CDT (06:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1998, 2:05 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lee County, AR, St. Francis County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:19 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 5, 1:30 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Forrest City, AR | Some trees were blown down just east of Forrest City. |
| Jun 5, 1:35 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Marianna, AR | Trees and power lines were knocked down in both Marianna and Aubrey. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 2737 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1197 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
661 WUUS1 KMEM 050616 RRA SVRMEM ARC077-123-050705- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 117 AM CDT FRI JUN 5 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ARKANSAS ST. FRANCIS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ARKANSAS * UNTIL 205 AM CDT * AT 115 AM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS MOVING EAST INTO WESTERN ST FRANCIS AND LEE COUNTIES AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... FORREST CITY BY 130 AM CDT MARIANNA BY 140 AM CDT .WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 9:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before
ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-MSZ001>017- 020>024-030-031-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>054-088>092-050930- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 930 PM CDT THU JUN 4 1998 THIS OUTLOOK COVERS THE COUNTY WARNING AREA OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MEMPHIS TENNESSEE...INCLUDING WEST TENNESSEE.. NORTH MISSISSIPPI.. EAST ARKANSAS AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL. THERE IS SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT OVER THE ENTIRE COUNTY WARNING AREA. A STATIONARY FRONT EXTENDED FROM NORTHERN ARKANSAS EASTWARD THROUGH TENNESSEE INTO WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY EVENING. VERY WARM AND HUMID AIR WAS IN PLACE OVER THE AREA AND THIS COMBINED WITH THE FRONT HAS CAUSED MORE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL INTENSIFY AND COULD BECOME SEVERE OVERNIGHT AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHES THE AREA FROM THE WEST. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. IN ADDITION.. STORMS WILL MOVE SLOWLY AND MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION OVERNIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATIONS...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION PROVIDER FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 9:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before
ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-MSZ001>017- 020>024-030-031-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>054-088>092-050930- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 930 PM CDT THU JUN 4 1998 THIS OUTLOOK COVERS THE COUNTY WARNING AREA OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MEMPHIS TENNESSEE...INCLUDING WEST TENNESSEE.. NORTH MISSISSIPPI.. EAST ARKANSAS AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL. THERE IS SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT OVER THE ENTIRE COUNTY WARNING AREA. A STATIONARY FRONT EXTENDED FROM NORTHERN ARKANSAS EASTWARD THROUGH TENNESSEE INTO WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY EVENING. VERY WARM AND HUMID AIR WAS IN PLACE OVER THE AREA AND THIS COMBINED WITH THE FRONT HAS CAUSED MORE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL INTENSIFY AND COULD BECOME SEVERE OVERNIGHT AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHES THE AREA FROM THE WEST. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. IN ADDITION.. STORMS WILL MOVE SLOWLY AND MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION OVERNIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATIONS...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION PROVIDER FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Poinsett | 32 min |
| Jun 5, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead, Poinsett | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Greene | 32 min |
| Jun 5, 1:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Cross | 43 min |
| Jun 5, 1:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Phillips | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 35 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.