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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Little Rock, AR

March 10, 1986Yell County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 1986, 2:46 AM CST for Yell County, Arkansas. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 10, 1986, 2:46 AM CST (08:46 UTC)
Expired
Mar 10, 1986, 3:30 AM CST
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Yell County, AR

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 214 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1986-03-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1986-03-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 126 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
242 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 10, 1:45 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKNewton60 min
Mar 10, 2:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBoone45 min
Mar 10, 2:10 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope65 min
Mar 10, 2:28 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMarion, Searcy47 min
Mar 10, 2:44 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKVan Buren46 min
Mar 10, 2:55 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter, Stone50 min
Mar 10, 3:11 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope34 min
Mar 10, 3:16 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

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.