Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 222
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 16, 1998, 12:00 AM CDT for 37 counties in Arkansas; Dunklin County, Pemiscot County, Missouri; 11 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 1998, 12:00 AM CDT (05:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1998, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 50 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Clay County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Greene County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Lee County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Perry County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Pike County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Saline County, AR, Sharp County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Yell County, AR, Dunklin County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Crockett County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henry County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Obion County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Weakley County, TN
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:00 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.
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lawrence | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 12:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence | 66 min |
| Apr 16, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 2:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Greene | 29 min |
| Apr 16, 2:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lake, Obion | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 2:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead, Mississippi | 49 min |
| Apr 16, 2:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 3:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 20 min |
| Apr 16, 3:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Dyer | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 3:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lauderdale | 34 min |
| Apr 16, 4:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crockett | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 4:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Crockett | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 4:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Gibson | 31 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 1219 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 868 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Little River, Miller, Polk, Sevier | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 7:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Faulkner and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 10:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Mississippi, Phillips and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 6 hr |
| Apr 15, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Callaway, Camden, Carter, Christian, Cole, Crawford and 28 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 15, 11:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Madison, Mississippi, New Madrid and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 16, 4:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Crockett and 34 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 7:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell and 35 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Claiborne and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Robertson | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Benton, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley and 78 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, 1998Tornado Watches in Tennessee, 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.