Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Aug 26, 1992, 3:36 PM CDT for Union County, Arkansas. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 1992, 3:36 PM CDT (20:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 1992, 4:14 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Union County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 547 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 913 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLIT 262036 TORLIT ARC139-262130- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 336 PM CDT WED AUG 26 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS ...UNION COUNTY AT 330 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTH OF HUTTIG MOVING TO THE NORTHWEST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL MAINLY AFFECT EASTERN UNION COUNTY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. 29
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, Aug 26, 11:17 AM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before
ARZALL-261900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1120 AM CDT WED AUG 26 1992 HURRICANE ANDREW IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SLOWLY NORTH THEN NORTHEAST THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. LATE THIS MORNING...HURRICANE ANDREW WAS LOCATED JUST WEST OF BATON ROUGE LOUISIANA MOVING SLOWLY TO THE NORTH. THE STORM HAD WEAKENED TO A MINIMAL HURRICANE AND SHOULD WEAKEN RAPIDLY LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT AS IT MOVES SLOWLY TO THE NORTH THEN NORTHEAST. THE CENTER OF ANDREW IS NOW FORECAST TO STAY JUST TO THE EAST OF ARKANSAS AS IT MOVES TO THE NORTH. THE CENTER OF ANDREW IS EXPECTED TO BE IN WESTERN MISSISSIPPI JUST TO THE EAST OF CHICOT COUNTY ARKANSAS AT SUNRISE THURSDAY AND INTO NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI BY LATE THURSDAY...MOVING AWAY FROM ARKANSAS. A COLD FRONT NEAR THE NORTHWESTERN BORDER OF ARKANSAS THIS MORNING WILL GET CAUGHT UP IN THE CIRCULATION AROUND ANDREW AND COOLER AIR WILL BE SWEPT INTO ARKANSAS BY THURSDAY. IT NOW APPEARS THAT THE MOST SEVERE WEATHER AND GENERAL HEAVY RAINS WILL BE TO THE SOUTH AND EAST OF ARKANSAS. MOST OF ARKANSAS WILL GET SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THURSDAY. THE HIGHEST THREAT OF RAIN AND THE HEAVIEST RAINS WILL BE IN THE EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN PART OF ARKANSAS. GENERAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS ACROSS ARKANSAS SHOULD BE LESS THAN ONE INCH... BUT A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTAIN HEAVIER RAINS. ISOLATED AREAS COULD GET OVER TWO INCHES OF RAIN. HEAVIER RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST. GENERAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO BE TWO INCHES OR LESS IN THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST...WITH ISOLATED HEAVIER AMOUNTS. WINDS AROUND ANDREW SHOULD DECREASE DRAMATICALLY AS THE STORM MOVES INLAND. IT APPEARS THAT WINDS ACROSS ARKANSAS WILL GENERALLY BE IN THE 10 TO 20 MPH RANGE...WITH HIGHER WINDS IN THE SOUTHEAST. OCCASIONAL GUSTS OF 30 TO 35 MPH COULD BE POSSIBLE IN THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEASTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI. THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES WILL REMAIN IN THOSE AREAS. HOWEVER...THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OR EVEN TORNADOES CANNOT BE RULED OUT FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN COUNTIES OF ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. PEOPLE IN EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND PREPARE TO MOVE TO SAFETY IF DARK CLOUDS APPROACH FROM THE SOUTHEAST OR A WARNING. IS ISSUED. 29
Special weather statement, Aug 26, 3:00 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
OKZ032-034-ARZ001-004-007-262100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT SMITH AR 300 PM CDT WED AUG 26 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING ACROSS NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA... RADAR AT 300 PM CDT WAS SHOWING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE INCREASING IN COVERAGE IN ADVANCE OF A COLD FRONT EXTENDING FROM SOUTHWEST MISSOURI NEAR SPRINGFIELD...SOUTHWEST ACROSS EXTREME NORTHWEST CORNER OF ARKANSAS INTO OKLAHOMA. MOVEMENT OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR MCCURTAIN OKLAHOMA...15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WALDRON ARKANSAS AND NEAR ELKINS IN WASHINGTON COUNTY. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN... BRIEF GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. -03-
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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.