Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 123
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 27, 1998, 2:00 PM CST for 31 counties in Arkansas; 28 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 1998, 2:00 PM CST (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 1998, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 59 counties
Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Conway County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Marion County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Newton County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pope County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Yell County, AR, Benton County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Camden County, MO, Christian County, MO, Cole County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Gasconade County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howell County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Maries County, MO, Miller County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Osage County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 2:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone | 63 min |
| Mar 27, 2:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Webster | 46 min |
| Mar 27, 2:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Ozark, Taney | 46 min |
| Mar 27, 2:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Marion, Pope, Searcy | 64 min |
| Mar 27, 2:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede, Wright | 50 min |
| Mar 27, 2:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Ozark | 32 min |
| Mar 27, 3:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Phelps, Pulaski, Texas | 63 min |
| Mar 27, 3:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell | 63 min |
| Mar 27, 3:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Maries | 62 min |
| Mar 27, 3:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent, Phelps, Shannon | 62 min |
| Mar 27, 3:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone, Callaway, Cole | 43 min |
| Mar 27, 3:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Osage | 43 min |
| Mar 27, 3:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy, Stone, Van Buren | 48 min |
| Mar 27, 6:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson, White, Woodruff | 46 min |
| Mar 27, 6:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Van Buren | 50 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1093 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 329 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.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 4:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson and 6 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, 1998Tornado Watches in Missouri, 1998Every tornado watch 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.