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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 24, 1994Yell County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1994, 11:10 PM CDT for Yell County, Arkansas. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 24, 1994, 11:10 PM CDT (04:10 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 1994, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

County Yell County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 214 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: 15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -272 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1556 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 234 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 
WUUS1 KLIT 250411 RRA
SVRLIT
ARC149-250515-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1110 PM CDT SUN JUL 24 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS
 
   ...YELL COUNTY
 
AT 1110 PM CDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF DANVILLE. MOVEMENT OF THE STORM WAS
SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
06/46

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, Jul 24, 6:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
614 PM CDT SUN JUL 24 1994

612 PM CDT...BOONE COUNTY...FIVE MILES NORTH OF HARRISON. MARBLE SIZE
    HAIL AND ESTIMATED 50 TO 55 MPH WINDS. FROM STORM SPOTTER.

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Local storm report, Jul 24, 7:17 PM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
717 PM CDT SUN JUL 24 1994

555-600 PM CDT...MARION COUNTY...CORPS OF ENGINEERS PARK ON BULL SHOALS
    RESEVOIR NEAR OAKLAND. GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL. RELAYED THROUGH
    COUNTY SHERIFF.

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Local storm report, Jul 24, 7:19 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
717 PM CDT SUN JUL 24 1994

555-600 PM CDT...MARION COUNTY...CORPS OF ENGINEERS PARK ON BULL SHOALS
    RESEVOIR NEAR OAKLAND. GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL. REL4AYED THROUGH
    COUNTY SHERIFF.

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Local storm report, Jul 24, 9:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
911 PM CDT SUN JUL 24 1994

807 PM CDT...SEARCY COUNTY...ESTIMATED 58 MPH WINDS AT CHIMES. STORM
    SPOTTER.
900 PM CDT...POPE COUNTY...NUMEROUS TREES DOWN IN SCOTTSVILLE (CROW
    MOUNTAIN). AMATEUR RADIO NETWORK.

910 PM CDT...MARION COUNTY...HEAVY STEET FLOODING IN YELLVILLE. FROM
    COUNTY SHERIFF.

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Local storm report, Jul 24, 9:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
911 PM CDT SUN JUL 24 1994

807 PM CDT...SEARCY COUNTY...ESTIMATED 58 MPH WINDS AT CHIMES. STORM
    SPOTTER.
900 PM CDT...POPE COUNTY...NUMEROUS TREEzS DOWN IN SCOTTSVILLE (CROW
    MOUNTAIN). AMATEUR RADIO NETWORK.

910 PM CDT...MARION COUNTY...HEAVY STEET FLOODING IN YELLVILLE. FROM
    COUNTY SHERIFF.

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Local storm report, Jul 24, 10:35 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1035 PM CDT SUN JUL 24 1994

918 PM CDT...POPE COUNTY...ESTIMATED 50 MPH WINDS 7 MILES NORTH OF
    MORRILTON. AMATEUR RADIO NETWORK.

920 PM CDT...JOHNSON COUNTY...TREES BLOWN DOWN IN CLARKSVILLE. COUNTY
    SHERIFF.

1000 PM CDT...LOGAN COUNTY...DIME SIZE HAIL 5 MILES EAST OF PARIS.
    COUNTY SHERIFF.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 24, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Searcy	59 min
Jul 24, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Van Buren	49 min
Jul 24, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Stone	49 min
Jul 24, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pope	59 min
Jul 24, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Franklin	40 min
Jul 24, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson	56 min
Jul 24, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, Perry	48 min
Jul 24, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan	60 min
Jul 24, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Franklin	46 min
Jul 24, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski	51 min
Jul 24, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan	60 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.