Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 355, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1998, 5:37 AM CDT for Crittenden County, Arkansas. It was in force for 48 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
- Jul 29, 1998, 5:37 AM CDT (10:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 1998, 6:25 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crittenden County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 5:50 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | West Memphis, AR | Several trees were knocked down. |
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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 532 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1738 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
217 WUUS1 KMEM 291035 RRA SVRMEM ARC035-291125- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 537 AM CDT WED JUL 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CRITTENDEN COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 625 AM CDT * AT 535 AM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF EARL MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... CRAWFORDSVILLE BY 545 AM WEST MEMPHIS BY 600 AM 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
Local storm report, Jul 29, 4:50 AM CDT, 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
450 AM CDT THU JUL 29 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0315 AM KENNTT MO FLOODING
07/29/98 DUNKLIN ALL STREETS IN KENNETT FLOODED
HIGHWAY Y SUBMERGED PAST
COUNTY ROAD 522
0315 AM CARUTHERSVILLE MO TONADO
07/29/98 PEMISCOTT THREE RIVERBOAT CAPTAINS
SIGHTED A TORNADO TWO MILES
SOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
BRIDGE NEAR CARUTHERSVILLE
MOVING EAST
0425 AM CARUTHERSVILLE MO FLOODING
07/29/98 PEMISCOTT SEVERAL BUISINESSES FLOODED
WITH 6 INCHES OF WATER.
0425 AM CARUTHERSVILLE MO FLOODING
07/29/98 PEMISCOTT SMALL STREAMS FLOODING
SECONDARY ROADS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 8:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 36 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.