Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 1990
Tornado Warning 32, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 1990, 5:58 PM CDT for Pike County, Arkansas. It was in force for 72 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 25, 1990, 5:58 PM CDT (22:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1990, 7:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 72 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 6:10 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | 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, 11.0 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
- 867 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -163 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1124 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSHV 252258 TORSHV ARC109-260010- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 558 PM CDT MON JUN 25 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 710 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS.. IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS ...PIKE COUNTY WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PIKE COUNTY BETWEEN SALEM AND LANGLEY ARKANSAS. SEVERE STORM SPOTTERS HAVE OBSERVED A FUNNEL CLOUD WITHIN THIS STORM. MOVEMENT WAS VERY SLOWLY SOUTHWARD.
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, Jun 25, 12:27 PM CDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before
OKZ026-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002- 003-004-005-006-DDTTTT- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1225 PM CDT MON JUN 25 1990 SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF NORTHERN LOUISIANA INTO CENTRAL LOUISIANA. AT 1220 PM SHREVEPORT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 15 MILES SOUTH OF RUSTON TO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF ALEXANDRIA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST NEAR 20 MPH. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED JUST WEST OF TALLULAH LOUISIANA AND MORE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING JUST EAST OF TEXARKANA ARKANSAS AND ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PARIS TEXAS. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND NORTHERN LOUISIANA THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTKY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HAIL.
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 12:28 PM CDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before
OKZ026-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002- 003-004-005-006-251900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1225 PM CDT MON JUN 25 1990 SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF NORTHERN LOUISIANA INTO CENTRAL LOUISIANA. AT 1220 PM SHREVEPORT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 15 MILES SOUTH OF RUSTON TO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF ALEXANDRIA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST NEAR 20 MPH. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED JUST WEST OF TALLULAH LOUISIANA AND MORE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING JUST EAST OF TEXARKANA ARKANSAS AND ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PARIS TEXAS. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND NORTHERN LOUISIANA THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG MGUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HAIL.
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 1:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
OKZ026-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002- 003-004-005-006-252000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 148 PM CDT MON JUN 25 1990 SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTHERN LOUISIANA. AT 145 PM SHREVEPORT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE JACKSON-OUACHITA PARISH LINE BETWEEN MONROE AND JONESBORO. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ON THE WINN-CALDWELL PARISH LINE WEST OF COLUMBIA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EASTSOUTHEAST NEAR 20 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL OVER PORTIONS OF EASTERN JACKSON...OUACHITA AND CALDWELL PARISHES DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM NEAR DEQUEEN ARKANSAS SOUTHWESTWARD TO JUST SOUTH OF MT. PLEASANT TEXAS. ISOLATED SHOWERS WERE ALSO INDICATED ALONG THE ARKANSAS-LOUISIANA LINE SOUTHWEST OF MAGNOLIA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Nevada | 54 min |
| Jun 25, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Nevada | 106 min |
| Jun 25, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Lafayette | 101 min |
| Jun 25, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Howard, Sevier | 99 min |
| Jun 25, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Nevada | 99 min |
| Jun 25, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Pike | 80 min |
| Jun 25, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Miller | 97 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Arkansas, 1990Every tornado warning in 1990Tornadoes 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.