Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1992, 9:21 PM CST for Hempstead County, Howard County, Pike County, Arkansas. It was in force for 69 min. 5 reports 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 5, 1992, 9:21 PM CST (03:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1992, 10:30 PM CST
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hempstead County, AR, Howard County, AR, Pike County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 9:30 PM CST | Hail 1.5 | Howard, AR | |
| Mar 5, 9:40 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Hempstead, AR | |
| Mar 5, 9:40 PM CST | Hail 1.5 | Pike, AR | |
| Mar 5, 9:41 PM CST | Hail 1 | Pike, AR | |
| Mar 5, 9:42 PM CST | Hail 1 | Hempstead, 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 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 1709 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1236 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
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 severe thunderstorm 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 5, 3:40 PM CST, 5 hours 41 minutes before
STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
341 PM CST THU MAR 5 1992
STORM REPORTS FOR THURSDAY MARCH 5 1992
TIME CST CNTY/PRSH STATE EVENT/LOCATION/DAMAGE
300 PM LITTLE RIVER AR 2 PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN WILTON ARKANSAS.
326 PM LITTLE RIVER AR MARBLE..DIME..AND UP TO NICKLE SIZE
HAIL IN WILTON ARKANSAS.Local storm report, Mar 5, 7:23 PM CST, 1 hour 58 minutes before
STORM REPORTS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 725 PM CST THU MAR 5 1992 STORM REPORTS FOR THURSDAY MARCH 5 1992...INCOMPLETE LIST... TIME CST CNTY/PRSH STATE EVENT/LOCATION/DAMAGE 705 PM MILLER AR FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR TEXARKANA WITH LARGE HAIL.
Local storm report, Mar 5, 7:50 PM CST, 1 hour 31 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 10:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Claiborne, Lincoln | 55 min |
| Mar 5, 6:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Pike | 25 min |
| Mar 5, 6:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Pike | 32 min |
| Mar 5, 6:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Miller | 40 min |
| Mar 5, 7:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Nevada, Pike | 67 min |
| Mar 5, 7:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lafayette | 67 min |
| Mar 5, 7:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Miller, Pike | 66 min |
| Mar 5, 8:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Lafayette, Nevada | 57 min |
| Mar 5, 9:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Nevada | 67 min |
| Mar 5, 10:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Nevada | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning 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.