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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Little Rock, AR

March 28, 1988Faulkner County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 1988, 6:43 PM CST for Faulkner County, Arkansas. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 28, 1988, 6:43 PM CST (00:43 UTC)
Expired
Mar 28, 1988, 7:10 PM CST
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Faulkner 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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 235 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 1988-03-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 13 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1988-03-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 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
13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1294 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
204 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 28, 6:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski25 min
Mar 28, 6:10 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKPulaski50 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Arkansas, 1988Every tornado warning in 1988Tornadoes in 1988

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.