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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Sep 19, 1990, 4:45 PM CDT for Desha County, Arkansas. It was in force for 15 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 19, 1990, 4:45 PM CDT (21:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 19, 1990, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Desha 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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3615 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLIT 192147 TORLIT ARC041-192200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 445 PM CDT WED SEP 19 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS ...DESHA COUNTY AT 440 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC HITTING THE WAL-MART STORE IN MC GEHEE ARKANSAS. RADAR INDICATES A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN THE MC GEHEE AREA MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL MOVE OVER ARKANSAS CITY BY 500 PM CDT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. 29
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 19, 12:35 PM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
ARZ008-191830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1235 PM CDT WED SEP 19 1990 AT 1225 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NORTH GARLAND COUNTY EASTWARD ACROSS NORTH SALINE COUNTY INTO WEST PULASKI COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH AND SHOULD BE AFFECTING THE GREATER LITTLE ROCK AREA BETWEEN 1245 PM AND 200 PM CDT. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN.(..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND BRIEF GUSTY SURFACE WINDS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 06
Special weather statement, Sep 19, 2:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
OKZ020-013-ARZ001-004-007-192030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT SMITH AR 227 PM CDT WED SEP 19 1990 ...DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING ACROSS NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS... RADAR AT 225 PM CDT WAS SHOWING THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWEST CORNER OF ARKANSAS IN BENTON COUNTY AND NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY. ALSO IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS IN POLK COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS IN SOUTH POLK COUNTY NEAR WICKES. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PERSONS IN NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS SHOULD BE ALERT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS AND EXPECT HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN...BRIEF GUSTY WIND TO 40 MPH...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVTELOPING ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND PERSONS SHOULD LISTEN TO RADIO OR TV FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
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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.