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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 14, 1995Marion County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 3:45 PM CDT for Marion County, Arkansas. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 14, 1995, 3:45 PM CDT (20:45 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 1995, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Marion County, AR

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 122 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 1995-05-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1510 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 1995-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 129 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1510 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
732 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
242 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
8.0

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 11:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite62 min
May 13, 11:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJackson61 min
May 14, 1:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite50 min
May 14, 1:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJackson69 min
May 14, 2:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWoodruff49 min
May 14, 3:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJackson28 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.