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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Little Rock, AR

March 6, 1992Prairie County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Mar 6, 1992, 4:42 PM CST for Prairie County, Arkansas. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 6, 1992, 4:42 PM CST (22:42 UTC)
Expired
Mar 6, 1992, 5:15 PM CST
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Prairie County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 307 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1992-03-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 745 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1992-03-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 295 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
745 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
661 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
295 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
307 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.0
Supercell composite
6.1

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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 5, 6:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKNewton58 min
Mar 5, 6:28 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark32 min
Mar 5, 6:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLonoke52 min
Mar 5, 6:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland59 min
Mar 5, 6:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite65 min
Mar 5, 7:01 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence59 min
Mar 5, 7:12 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPrairie63 min
Mar 5, 7:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas50 min
Mar 5, 7:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMarion61 min
Mar 5, 7:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMonroe, Woodruff61 min
Mar 5, 7:52 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark68 min
Mar 5, 8:06 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKHot Spring54 min
Mar 5, 8:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland58 min
Mar 5, 9:27 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKOuachita63 min
Mar 5, 10:27 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCalhoun, Ouachita48 min
Mar 5, 10:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark28 min
Mar 5, 10:54 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKHot Spring51 min
Mar 6, 4:54 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLonoke51 min
Mar 6, 5:38 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas37 min
Mar 6, 2:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKVan Buren31 min
Mar 6, 2:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne61 min
Mar 6, 2:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner55 min
Mar 6, 3:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite45 min
Mar 6, 3:30 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKWhite45 min
Mar 6, 4:00 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKWhite30 min
Mar 6, 4:13 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKPrairie32 min
Mar 6, 4:52 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKMonroe, Woodruff38 min
Mar 6, 5:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski32 min
Mar 6, 5:34 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKRandolph41 min
Mar 6, 5:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLonoke52 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.