Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches in 1999

Tornado Watch 210

May 4, 19994 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 4, 1999, 3:00 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 4, 1999, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired
May 4, 1999, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 84 counties

Baxter County, AR, Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Conway County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Garland County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Izard County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Miller County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Newton County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline 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, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Adair County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Anderson County, TX, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Delta County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Panola County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wood County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 4, 3:01 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVGregg, Rusk39 min
May 4, 3:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLamar41 min
May 4, 3:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSASebastian52 min
May 4, 3:14 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVLittle River46 min
May 4, 3:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACrawford37 min
May 4, 3:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman, Van Zandt36 min
May 4, 3:25 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDLamar35 min
May 4, 3:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAFranklin47 min
May 4, 3:29 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVHarrison61 min
May 4, 3:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins, Hunt, Rains37 min
May 4, 3:47 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVSevier63 min
May 4, 3:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk, Scott47 min
May 4, 3:58 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKJohnson, Newton47 min
May 4, 3:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMadison47 min
May 4, 3:59 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVHoward61 min
May 4, 3:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman, Van Zandt61 min
May 4, 4:03 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVMiller47 min
May 4, 4:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVMcCurtain49 min
May 4, 4:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPike47 min
May 4, 4:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRains54 min
May 4, 4:36 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDRains, Van Zandt24 min
May 4, 4:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHempstead, Lafayette63 min
May 4, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCaddo49 min
May 4, 4:43 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKPike37 min
May 4, 4:46 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDKaufman29 min
May 4, 4:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVWood62 min
May 4, 4:55 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKClark, Hot Spring50 min
May 4, 4:55 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKGarland50 min
May 4, 4:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis, Henderson, Navarro50 min
May 4, 4:55 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDEllis, Henderson, Navarro50 min
May 4, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMontgomery34 min
May 4, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVHempstead, Nevada50 min
May 4, 5:01 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKJohnson, Logan, Pope49 min
May 4, 5:04 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSABenton86 min
May 4, 5:04 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVCaddo46 min
May 4, 5:06 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVWood49 min
May 4, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk36 min
May 4, 5:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark51 min
May 4, 5:21 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVBossier49 min
May 4, 5:25 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDKaufman50 min
May 4, 5:38 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKSaline42 min
May 4, 5:43 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVLafayette47 min
May 4, 5:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKJohnson, Logan3 hr
May 4, 5:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKBoone, Newton3 hr
May 4, 5:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSmith64 min
May 4, 5:51 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKPope, Searcy49 min
May 4, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner, Perry, Pulaski50 min
May 4, 6:03 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVColumbia47 min
May 4, 6:04 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKClark31 min
May 4, 6:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson, Freestone56 min
May 4, 6:17 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKHot Spring48 min
May 4, 6:23 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKFaulkner, Pulaski37 min
May 4, 6:26 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVSmith64 min
May 4, 6:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter, Marion48 min
May 4, 6:31 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKBaxter34 min
May 4, 6:40 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDAnderson35 min
May 4, 6:48 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKGrant, Saline47 min
May 4, 6:53 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKBaxter, Marion, Searcy3 hr
May 4, 6:53 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKPope3 hr
May 4, 6:56 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVColumbia49 min
May 4, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner, Pulaski35 min
May 4, 7:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHarrison, Marion47 min
May 4, 7:09 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKOuachita51 min
May 4, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope33 min
May 4, 7:12 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDAnderson33 min
May 4, 7:21 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVCherokee64 min
May 4, 7:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSmith65 min
May 4, 7:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKVan Buren34 min
May 4, 7:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCaddo31 min
May 4, 7:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVGregg48 min
May 4, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHarrison64 min

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 11:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Crawford, Sebastian, Washington6 hr
May 4, 11:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Scott and 2 more5 hr
May 4, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clay and 30 more4 hr
May 3, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 33 more5 hr
May 3, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCLove, Marshall5 hr
May 3, 10:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 42 more6 hr
May 4, 12:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCCraig, Kay, Nowata, Osage, Ottawa, Washington5 hr
May 4, 5:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 41 more6 hr
May 4, 3:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBandera, Brown, Burnet, Concho, Coryell, Crockett and 18 more2 hr
May 4, 5:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet and 46 more6 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.