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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 19, 1990Pulaski County, Saline County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1990, 9:10 PM CDT for Pulaski County, Saline County, Arkansas. It was in force for 65 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
May 19, 1990, 9:10 PM CDT (02:10 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 1990, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

Counties Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 19, 9:10 PM CDTHail 0.75Saline, AR
May 19, 9:30 PM CDTHail 1.75Pulaski, AR

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 233 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, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1990-05-20Temperature 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, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1990-05-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 138 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
3611 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
138 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
176 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.

What 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 19, 4:59 PM CDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
458 PM CDT SAT MAY 19 1990

THE PULASKI COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTS THAT A SMALL TORNADO
TOUCHED DOWN BRIEFLY ON SALES ROAD IN NORTHERN PULASKI COUNTY
AROUND 422 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. A MOBILE HOME WAS COMPLETELY
DESTROYED AND THERE WAS SOME TREE DAMAGE. SEVERAL WITNESSES
REPORTEDLY SAW THE TORNADO TOUCH DOWN BRIEFLY.

28
Special weather statement, May 19, 7:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 19, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKGarland60 min
May 19, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland, Saline59 min
May 19, 8:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne, Van Buren68 min
May 19, 8:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKGarland, Montgomery4 hr
May 19, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland, Grant, Hot Spring65 min
May 19, 10:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKGrant, Hot Spring4 hr
May 19, 10:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKClark4 hr
May 19, 10:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKHot Spring67 min
May 20, 1:02 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKGarland, Hot Spring, Montgomery3 hr
May 20, 1:02 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKGrant3 hr
May 20, 1:02 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKClark3 hr
May 20, 2:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGrant, Saline57 min
May 20, 3:50 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKClark, Hot Spring, Montgomery2 hr
May 20, 3:50 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKGrant2 hr
May 20, 3:50 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKGarland2 hr
May 20, 1:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDrew65 min
May 20, 3:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKChicot42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.