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Tornado Watch 260

April 27, 19986 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 27, 1998, 3:15 PM CDT for 6 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 27, 1998, 3:15 PM CDT (20:15 UTC)
Expired: Apr 27, 1998, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 67 counties

Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Clay County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Greene County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Marion County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Alexander County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Ballard County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Hickman County, KY, McCracken County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Carter County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Dunklin County, MO, Howell County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Madison County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Reynolds County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Scott County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Texas County, MO, Wayne County, MO, Wright County, MO, Benton County, MS, Crockett County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Obion County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Weakley County, TN

Warnings issued inside it

26 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay	49 min
Apr 27, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler	57 min
Apr 27, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer	47 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, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette	48 min
Apr 27, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Gibson	47 min
Apr 27, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dunklin	34 min
Apr 27, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross	47 min
Apr 27, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	51 min
Apr 27, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Pemiscot	35 min
Apr 27, 5:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Fayette	2 hr
Apr 27, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette	47 min
Apr 27, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Gibson	49 min
Apr 27, 6:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Fulton	3 hr
Apr 27, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lake	34 min
Apr 27, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dunklin	48 min
Apr 27, 6:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Benton	47 min
Apr 27, 7:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Benton, Marshall	3 hr
Apr 27, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Pemiscot	34 min
Apr 27, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer	49 min
Apr 27, 8:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Dyer	36 min
Apr 27, 8:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Benton, Marshall	47 min
Apr 27, 8:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Benton, Marshall, Tippah	3 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 233 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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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
Apr 27, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 14 more	6 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.