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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Little Rock, AR

April 10, 1990Pope County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 1990, 4:48 AM CDT for Pope County, Arkansas. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 10, 1990, 4:48 AM CDT (09:48 UTC)
Expired
Apr 10, 1990, 5:30 AM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Pope 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 175 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 1990-04-10Temperature 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 1990-04-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 231 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
904 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
231 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
236 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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.