Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 1990
Tornado Warning 23, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at May 19, 1990, 6:37 PM CDT for Pike County, Arkansas. It was in force for 38 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, 6:37 PM CDT (23:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1990, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pike 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Pike, AR | |
| May 19, 7:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Pike, 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
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSHV 192337 TORSHV ARC109-200015- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 637 PM CDT SAT MAY 19 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS.. IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS ...NORTH CENTRAL PIKE COUNTY ARKANSAS STATE POLICE REPORTS A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR LANGLEY ARKANSAS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EASTNORTHEAST NEAR 25 MPH. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNAO SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
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, May 19, 5:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
OKZ026-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002- 003-004-005-006- 200015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 520 PM CDT SAT MAY 19 1990 THE SHREVEPORT WEATHER RADAR AT 517 PM SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS...ONE LOCATED OVER NORTHERN HOWARD COUNTY AND ANOTHER LOCATED OVER CENTRAL HOWARD COUNTY NORTH- WEST OF NASHVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EASTNORTHEAST NEAR 30 MPH. ELSEWHERE...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER TEXAS TO THE SOUTHEAST OF THE DALLAS AREA. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO NORTHEAST TEXAS LATER TONIGHT. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF EASTERN AND SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA...INCLUDING MC CURTAIN COUNTY. PERSONS IN OR CLOSE TO THE TORNADO WATCH AREA SHOULD WATCH FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Howard | 68 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.