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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Little Rock, AR

November 13, 1993Pope County, Yell County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Nov 13, 1993, 6:58 PM CST for Pope County, Yell County, Arkansas. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 13, 1993, 6:58 PM CST (00:58 UTC)
Expired: Nov 13, 1993, 8:00 PM CST
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

Counties Pope County, AR, Yell County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 558 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 227 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 430 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLIT 140058
TORLIT
ARC115-149-140200-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
658 PM CST SAT NOV 13 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S...
 
IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS
 
   ...POPE COUNTY...NORTHERN YELL COUNTY
 
AT 6:58PM CST...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES
NORTH OF DANVILLE ARKANSAS...THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35
MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
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.
 
 
16/100

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, Nov 13, 6:00 PM CST, 58 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT SMITH, AR
600 PM CST SAT NOV 13 1993

TIME/CST     COUNTY/STATE          EVENT

500 PM       POLK/AR               TORNADO TOUCHDOWN REPORTED ON HIGHWAY
                                   4 JUST WEST OF COVE...SVRL BUILDINGS
                                   DAMAGED...POWER LINES DOWN (MCCURTAIN
                                   CO. DISPATCHER LISTENING TO EMGY COMMS)

512 PM       POLK/AR               MAJOR TORNADO DAMAGE IN MENA. SEVERAL
                                   BUILDINGS DESTROYED. ONLY A FEW MINOR
                                   INJURIES REPORTED AT THIS TIME.
                                   POWER LINES DOWN...GAS LEAKS REPORTED.

535 PM       SCOTT/AR              NICKLE-SIZE HAIL NEAR Y-CITY...SOME
                                   WIND DAMGE REPORTED.

Local storm report, Nov 13, 6:08 PM CST, 50 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT SMITH, AR
600 PM CST SAT NOV 13 1993

TIME/CST     COUNTY/STATE          EVENT

500 PM       POLK/AR               TORNADO TOUCHDOWN REPORTED ON HIGHWAY
                                   4 JUST WEST OF COVE...SVRL BUILDINGS
                                   DAMAGED...POWER LINES DOWN (MCCURTAIN
                                   CO. DISPATCHER LISTENING TO EMGY COMMS)

512 PM       POLK/AR               MAJOR TORNADO DAMAGE IN MENA. SEVERAL
                                   BUILDINGS DESTROYED. ONLY A FEW MINOR
                                   INJURIES REPORTED AT THIS TIME.
                                   POWER LINES DOWN...GAS LEAKS REPOR^TED.

535 PM       SCOTT/AR              NICKLE-SIZE HAIL NEAR Y-CITY...SOME
                                   WIND DAMGE REPORTED.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 13, 6:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Prairie	33 min
Nov 13, 6:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	White	69 min
Nov 14, 3:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Van Buren	40 min
Nov 14, 3:53 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Stone, Van Buren	52 min
Nov 14, 6:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Yell	52 min
Nov 14, 7:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pope	52 min
Nov 14, 7:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Perry	41 min
Nov 14, 7:52 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Van Buren	53 min
Nov 14, 8:03 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway	27 min
Nov 14, 8:07 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner	53 min
Nov 14, 8:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski	63 min
Nov 14, 8:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, White	58 min
Nov 14, 8:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Izard	58 min
Nov 14, 8:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence	49 min
Nov 14, 8:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant	51 min
Nov 14, 10:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas	49 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.