Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 85, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 1998, 12:15 AM CST for Crawford County, Arkansas. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 10, 1998, 12:15 AM CST (06:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 1998, 1:00 AM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crawford County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:16 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 12:35 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Van Buren, AR | Several large tree limbs were blown onto a road in Van Buren. The branches even caused a traffic accident. (Damage value from accident not included in this entry since the winds were the indirect cause of the accident.) |
| Nov 10, 12:50 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Alma, AR | Several 2-inch diameter tree limbs blown down. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 11:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -341 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 505 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 565 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 11:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Washington | 51 min |
| Nov 10, 12:15 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 45 min |
| Nov 10, 12:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Carroll, Madison | 55 min |
| Nov 10, 12:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 55 min |
| Nov 10, 12:22 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Washington | 38 min |
| Nov 10, 12:50 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian | 40 min |
| Nov 10, 1:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll, Madison | 34 min |
| Nov 10, 1:25 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Franklin | 20 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Arkansas, 1998Every tornado warning in 1998Tornadoes 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.