Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 126
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 27, 1998, 7:00 PM CST for 27 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 1998, 7:00 PM CST (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 1998, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 27 counties
Clark County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Conway County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Faulkner 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, 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
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 7:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence | 32 min |
| Mar 27, 8:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne | 32 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 764 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 760 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 320 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
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, 10:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Grant and 17 more | 5 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.