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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Little Rock, AR

November 13, 1993Pulaski County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Nov 13, 1993, 5:02 PM CST for Pulaski County, Arkansas. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 13, 1993, 5:02 PM CST (23:02 UTC)
Expired
Nov 13, 1993, 6:00 PM CST
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Pulaski County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 272 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 1993-11-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 65 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 1993-11-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 111 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
65 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
881 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.3

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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
Nov 13, 3:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKHot Spring49 min
Nov 13, 4:36 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSaline69 min
Nov 13, 4:44 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKSaline61 min
Nov 13, 5:55 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKYell65 min
Nov 13, 5:56 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKLonoke, White64 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.