Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 1992

Tornado Warning 5, NWS Little Rock, AR

March 6, 1992Monroe County, Woodruff County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Mar 6, 1992, 4:52 PM CST for Monroe County, Woodruff County, Arkansas. It was in force for 38 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: Mar 6, 1992, 4:52 PM CST (22:52 UTC)
Expired: Mar 6, 1992, 5:30 PM CST
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

Counties Monroe County, AR, Woodruff County, AR

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 6, 4:55 PM CST	Tornado F1	Woodruff, 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

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 309 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -261 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1133 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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

Local storm report, Mar 6, 4:45 PM CST, 7 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 5, 6:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Newton	58 min
Mar 5, 6:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark	32 min
Mar 5, 6:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	52 min
Mar 5, 6:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland	59 min
Mar 5, 6:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	White	65 min
Mar 5, 7:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence	59 min
Mar 5, 7:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Prairie	63 min
Mar 5, 7:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas	50 min
Mar 5, 7:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Marion	61 min
Mar 5, 7:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe, Woodruff	61 min
Mar 5, 7:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark	68 min
Mar 5, 8:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Hot Spring	54 min
Mar 5, 8:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland	58 min
Mar 5, 9:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Ouachita	63 min
Mar 5, 10:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Ouachita	48 min
Mar 5, 10:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark	28 min
Mar 5, 10:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Hot Spring	51 min
Mar 6, 4:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	51 min
Mar 6, 5:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas	37 min
Mar 6, 2:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Van Buren	31 min
Mar 6, 2:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne	61 min
Mar 6, 2:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner	55 min
Mar 6, 3:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	White	45 min
Mar 6, 3:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	White	45 min
Mar 6, 4:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	White	30 min
Mar 6, 4:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Prairie	32 min
Mar 6, 4:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Prairie	33 min
Mar 6, 5:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski	32 min
Mar 6, 5:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Randolph	41 min
Mar 6, 5:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	52 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Arkansas, 1992 Every tornado warning in 1992 Tornadoes in 1992

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.