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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Little Rock, AR

September 24, 1993White County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Sep 24, 1993, 5:52 PM CDT for White County, Arkansas. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 24, 1993, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
Expired
Sep 24, 1993, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County White County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 260 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 1993-09-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 41 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 1993-09-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 327 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
41 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-155 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
555 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
327 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
320 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.4

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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
Sep 24, 4:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway52 min
Sep 24, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner67 min
Sep 24, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite63 min
Sep 24, 6:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMonroe41 min
Sep 24, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPrairie52 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.