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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Little Rock, AR

March 22, 1991Jackson County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Mar 22, 1991, 8:03 AM CST for Jackson County, Arkansas. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 22, 1991, 8:03 AM CST (14:03 UTC)
Expired
Mar 22, 1991, 8:45 AM CST
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Jackson County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 278 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, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 12:00Z on 1991-03-22Temperature 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, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 12:00Z on 1991-03-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 233 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
2208 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
80 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
233 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
279 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 21, 6:10 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKBoone, Newton65 min
Mar 21, 6:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMarion65 min
Mar 21, 6:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter60 min
Mar 21, 9:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKYell55 min
Mar 21, 10:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMontgomery45 min
Mar 21, 10:09 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFulton66 min
Mar 21, 10:09 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter, Marion66 min
Mar 21, 10:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope, Searcy58 min
Mar 21, 10:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPerry58 min
Mar 21, 10:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKYell47 min
Mar 21, 11:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway47 min
Mar 22, 12:16 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner44 min
Mar 22, 5:53 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKYell52 min
Mar 22, 6:19 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway26 min
Mar 22, 6:51 AM CSTTornado WarningLZKCleburne39 min
Mar 22, 7:25 AM CSTTornado WarningLZKIndependence50 min
Mar 22, 7:32 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLawrence58 min
Mar 22, 7:51 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKRandolph54 min
Mar 22, 8:20 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence25 min
Mar 22, 8:38 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLawrence37 min
Mar 22, 2:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDesha45 min
Mar 22, 3:07 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKAshley, Chicot68 min

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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.