Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1987, 8:58 PM CDT for Cleburne County, Arkansas. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 1987, 8:58 PM CDT (01:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1987, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cleburne 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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 3570 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KLIT 040158
SVRLIT
ARC023-040245-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
858 PM CDT SUN MAY 3 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS
...CLEBURNE
AT 855 PM THIS EVENING RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN
CLEBURNE COUNTY...APPROACHING DRASCO. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND HIGH WINDS.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
25What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 3, 6:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 630 PM CDT SUN MAY 3 1987 512 PM...GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AT BULL SHOALS STATE PARK. RECEIVED FROM DEPUTY BAXTER COUNTY SHERIFF. 514 PM...MAR"BLE SIZE HAIL AT BULL SHOALS RESERVOIR. RECEIVED FROM MARION COUNTY SHERIFF. 550 PM...MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN YELLVILLE. FROM MARION COUNTY SHERIFF. 610 PM...HIGH WINDS...TREES DOWN 8 MILES SOUTH OF YELLVILLE. FROM MARION COUNTY SHERIFF. 25
Special weather statement, May 3, 7:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT SMITH AR 700 PM CDT SUN MAY 3 1987 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA INCLUDING LEFLORE COUNTY... AT 655 PM CDT FT SMITH RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS FROM 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HARRISON ARKANSAS TO LAKE NORFORK IN ARKANSAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING NORTHEAST 20 MILES AN HOUR.C HEAVY RAIN HAIL AND STRONG WINDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. ELSEWHERE A FEW SCATTERED LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS WAS INDICATED OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THIS AREA OF SHOWERS WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, May 3, 8:01 PM CDT, 57 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT SMITH AR 800 PM CDT SUN MAY 3 1987 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA INCLUDING LEFLORE COUNTY... AT 755 PM FT SMITH RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS IN STONE AND SEARCY COUNTIES MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES. HEAVY RAIN HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS. ALSO AN LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS WITH A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MCALESTER OKLAHOMA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Izard | 55 min |
| May 3, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Van Buren | 64 min |
| May 3, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Independence | 60 min |
| May 3, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson | 65 min |
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.