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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 11, 1989Cleburne County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 1989, 2:42 PM CDT for Cleburne County, Arkansas. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 1989, 2:42 PM CDT (19:42 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1989, 3:15 PM CDT
In force
33 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

Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 343 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, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 12:00Z on 1989-06-11Temperature 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, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 12:00Z on 1989-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 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
Jun 11, 2:35 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKVan Buren33 min
Jun 11, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJackson50 min
Jun 11, 4:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDesha, Drew42 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.