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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 2, 1994Lawrence County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Jul 2, 1994, 4:05 PM CDT for Lawrence County, Arkansas. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 2, 1994, 4:05 PM CDT (21:05 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 1994, 4:45 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Lawrence County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 171 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1994-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 999 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1994-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 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
999 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
775 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
Jul 2, 3:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKRandolph63 min
Jul 2, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKRandolph63 min
Jul 2, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLawrence50 min
Jul 2, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJackson52 min
Jul 2, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJackson60 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.