Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 34, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 27, 1998, 2:52 PM CDT for Mississippi 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
- Apr 27, 1998, 2:52 PM CDT (19:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 1998, 3:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mississippi County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 3:20 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Blytheville, AR | |
| Apr 27, 3:35 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Blytheville, AR |
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 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 807 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
937 WFUS1 KMEM 271951 RRA TORMEM ARC093-272040- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 252 PM CDT MON APR 27 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 340 PM CDT * AT 250 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO ON THE MISSISSIPPI-CRAIGHEAD COUNTY LINE SOUTHEAST OF CARAWAY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... SOUTH OF MANILA BY 310 PM CDT .IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Poinsett | 30 min |
| Apr 27, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead | 49 min |
| Apr 27, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 47 min |
| Apr 27, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Greene, Lawrence | 48 min |
| Apr 27, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 35 min |
| Apr 27, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Phillips | 32 min |
| Apr 27, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay | 49 min |
| Apr 27, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 48 min |
| Apr 27, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead | 49 min |
| Apr 27, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay, Greene | 47 min |
| Apr 27, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Cross | 47 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.