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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 7, 1994Pulaski County, Saline County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 1994, 9:26 PM CDT for Pulaski County, Saline County, Arkansas. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 1994, 9:26 PM CDT (02:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 1994, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

Counties Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 271 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: 63 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -734 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1796 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 378 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Jun 7, 8:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 7, 8:45 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 7, 8:55 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 7, 8:56 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 7, 9:00 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 7, 9:00 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

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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
Jun 7, 7:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Newton	53 min
Jun 7, 7:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Pope, Searcy, Van Buren	58 min
Jun 7, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway	48 min
Jun 7, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Perry	62 min
Jun 7, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pope	62 min
Jun 7, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Yell	55 min
Jun 7, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski, Saline	59 min
Jun 7, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Independence, White	54 min
Jun 7, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	60 min
Jun 7, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant, Jefferson	50 min
Jun 7, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Prairie	50 min
Jun 7, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Hot Spring	38 min
Jun 7, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas	59 min
Jun 7, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe	49 min
Jun 7, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Lincoln	41 min
Jun 7, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Dallas	41 min
Jun 7, 10:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha	59 min
Jun 7, 11:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Drew	57 min
Jun 8, 8:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Carroll	43 min
Jun 8, 10:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, White	53 min
Jun 8, 10:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Independence, Stone	40 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.