Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches in 1999
Tornado Watch 72
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 5, 1999, 5:30 PM CST for 41 counties in Arkansas; Bowie County, Cass County, Morris County, Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 1999, 5:30 PM CST (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1999, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties
Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Conway County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Independence County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Logan County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Miller County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Newton County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Pope County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Stone County, AR, Union County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Yell County, AR, Bowie County, TX, Cass County, TX, Morris County, TX
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
25 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 5:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Pope | 63 min |
| Mar 5, 6:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson | 48 min |
| Mar 5, 6:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Howard | 47 min |
| Mar 5, 6:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Howard | 47 min |
| Mar 5, 6:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Van Buren | 66 min |
| Mar 5, 6:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Montgomery | 49 min |
| Mar 5, 6:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Pike | 65 min |
| Mar 5, 6:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Conway | 33 min |
| Mar 5, 6:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland | 62 min |
| Mar 5, 7:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Cleburne | 59 min |
| Mar 5, 7:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Saline | 62 min |
| Mar 5, 7:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Clark | 64 min |
| Mar 5, 7:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Van Buren | 65 min |
| Mar 5, 7:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 58 min |
| Mar 5, 7:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 49 min |
| Mar 5, 7:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 38 min |
| Mar 5, 8:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Independence, White | 63 min |
| Mar 5, 8:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 48 min |
| Mar 5, 8:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Pulaski | 51 min |
| Mar 5, 8:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Grant | 63 min |
| Mar 5, 8:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Prairie | 48 min |
| Mar 5, 8:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 31 min |
| Mar 5, 9:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Jefferson | 61 min |
| Mar 5, 9:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant | 32 min |
| Mar 5, 9:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne | 34 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 303 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1088 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 456 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 408 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.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 4:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Garland and 19 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.