Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 373, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 10, 1998, 4:21 AM CST for Lawrence County, Arkansas. It was in force for 49 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
- Nov 10, 1998, 4:21 AM CST (10:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 1998, 5:10 AM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lawrence County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 5:00 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoxie, AR | A 50'x50' section of the roof to an elementary school in Walnut Ridge was blown away. A nearby outbuilding was destroyed. A few homes were also damaged. Several trees were also 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 1:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -341 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 505 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 565 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 6:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 47 min |
| Nov 10, 6:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dyer, Lauderdale, Tipton | 46 min |
| Nov 10, 6:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lake, Obion | 46 min |
| Nov 10, 7:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Haywood | 47 min |
| Nov 10, 7:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crockett, Gibson | 33 min |
| Nov 10, 7:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Weakley | 32 min |
| Nov 10, 7:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman, Madison | 50 min |
| Nov 10, 8:02 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardeman, Madison | 33 min |
| Nov 10, 8:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henry | 47 min |
| Nov 10, 8:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester | 32 min |
| Nov 10, 8:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll | 50 min |
| Nov 10, 8:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henderson | 51 min |
| Nov 10, 8:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | McNairy | 51 min |
| Nov 10, 8:40 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Madison | 20 min |
| Nov 10, 8:46 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Henry | 19 min |
| Nov 10, 8:52 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Henderson | 33 min |
| Nov 10, 9:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardin | 50 min |
| Nov 10, 7:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Panola, Tate | 33 min |
| Nov 10, 7:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie | 36 min |
| Nov 10, 7:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Marshall | 33 min |
| Nov 10, 7:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Yalobusha | 48 min |
| Nov 10, 8:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Union | 63 min |
| Nov 10, 8:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Pontotoc | 63 min |
| Nov 10, 9:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw | 62 min |
| Nov 10, 9:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 61 min |
| Nov 10, 9:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee | 46 min |
| Nov 10, 10:05 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee | 35 min |
| Nov 10, 4:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Randolph | 50 min |
| Nov 10, 5:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead, Poinsett | 46 min |
| Nov 10, 5:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Cross, Lee, St. Francis | 45 min |
| Nov 10, 6:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Mississippi | 49 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.