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Tornado Watch 507

June 4, 199835 counties in Arkansas; 13 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 4, 1998, 6:00 PM CDT for 35 counties in Arkansas; 13 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 4, 1998, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 1998, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 48 counties

Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Clay County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Garland County, AR, Howard County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Newton County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, Yell County, AR, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Coal County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford	48 min
Jun 4, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison, Washington	43 min
Jun 4, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin	44 min
Jun 4, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson	63 min
Jun 4, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin	33 min
Jun 4, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Bryan	44 min
Jun 4, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Pope	60 min
Jun 4, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw	49 min
Jun 4, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Bryan	33 min
Jun 4, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	59 min
Jun 4, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll, Madison	38 min
Jun 4, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Van Buren	65 min
Jun 4, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway	48 min
Jun 4, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw	46 min
Jun 4, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	McCurtain	64 min
Jun 4, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford	48 min
Jun 4, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin, Sebastian	58 min
Jun 4, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	21 min
Jun 4, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Newton	61 min
Jun 4, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Howard, Sevier	61 min
Jun 4, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	65 min
Jun 4, 10:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Polk	48 min
Jun 4, 10:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Pike	48 min
Jun 4, 11:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Van Buren	34 min
Jun 4, 11:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne	32 min
Jun 4, 11:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Hot Spring, Saline	64 min
Jun 4, 11:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Perry	64 min
Jun 4, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Pulaski	63 min
Jun 5, 12:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence	50 min

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 241 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: 160 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -374 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 575 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 388 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 377 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.9

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The text

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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.