Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 1988
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Little Rock, AR
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 6:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 25 min |
| Mar 28, 6:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 50 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.