Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 128
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 27, 1998, 10:00 PM CST for 5 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 1998, 10:00 PM CST (04:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 1998, 3:00 AM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Clay County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Grant County, AR, Greene County, AR, Independence County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Lee County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Randolph County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Carlisle County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Butler County, MO, Dunklin County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Tunica County, MS, Dyer County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Obion County, TN, Tipton County, TN
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, 10:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Mississippi, New Madrid | 39 min |
| Mar 27, 11:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler | 33 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 117 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, 7:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland, Conway, Dallas, Faulkner and 21 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 27, 8:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden, Daviess and 13 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 28, 1:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Breckinridge, Daviess, Hancock, Henderson, McLean, Union and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 28, 1:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lincoln, Pike, Saint Charles, Warren | 3 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, 1998Tornado Watches in Missouri, 1998Tornado Watches in Tennessee, 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.