Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 99, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 1999, 4:26 PM CDT for Garland County, Arkansas. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 29, 1999, 4:26 PM CDT (21:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1999, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Garland County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 4:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Jessieville, AR |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 904 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 972 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 1:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
ARZ021-030-037-038-040-041-050>052-300000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 131 PM CDT TUE JUN 29 1999 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WESTERN ARKANSAS EFFECTING FROM 130 PM UNTIL 7 PM THIS EVENING. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED RAPIDLY IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON...AND WERE MOVING EASTWARD. A NEARLY STATIONARY COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED ACROSS CENTRAL ARKANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS NEAR MENA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AHEAD OF THE MAIN AREA IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA...BUT THE MAIN AREA WILL ARRIVE IN WESTERN ARKANSAS AFTER 3 PM. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EASTWARD AT NEARLY 30 MPH THIS AFTERNOON. 34
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 1:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
ARZ021-030-037-038-040-041-050>052-300000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 131 PM CDT TUE JUN 29 1999 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WESTERN ARKANSAS EFFECTING FROM 130 PM UNTIL 7 PM THIS EVENING. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED RAPIDLY IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON...AND WERE MOVING EASTWARD. A NEARLY STATIONARY COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED ACROSS CENTRAL ARKANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS NEAR MENA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AHEAD OF THE MAIN AREA IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA...BUT THE MAIN AREA WILL ARRIVE IN WESTERN ARKANSAS AFTER 3 PM. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EASTWARD AT NEARLY 30 MPH THIS AFTERNOON. 34
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 12:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 2:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk, Scott | 49 min |
| Jun 29, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery | 49 min |
| Jun 29, 3:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Polk | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan | 51 min |
| Jun 29, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland | 47 min |
| Jun 29, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson | 57 min |
| Jun 29, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Perry | 52 min |
| Jun 29, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton, Pope | 58 min |
| Jun 29, 5:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Garland, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Saline | 50 min |
| Jun 29, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Perry, Pulaski | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Hot Spring | 51 min |
| Jun 29, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, White | 53 min |
| Jun 29, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Prairie | 52 min |
| Jun 29, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White, Woodruff | 51 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.