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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 4, 1993Fulton County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 1993, 8:04 AM CDT for Fulton County, Arkansas. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 4, 1993, 8:04 AM CDT (13:04 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 1993, 8:45 AM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Fulton County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 186 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 1993-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 456 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 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 1993-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 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
456 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-408 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1646 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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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
Jun 4, 7:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFulton60 min
Jun 4, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence, Stone57 min
Jun 4, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne44 min
Jun 4, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence34 min
Jun 4, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJackson60 min
Jun 4, 6:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJackson46 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.