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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Little Rock, AR

March 7, 1995Pulaski County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 1995, 5:34 AM CST for Pulaski County, Arkansas. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 7, 1995, 5:34 AM CST (11:34 UTC)
Expired
Mar 7, 1995, 6:30 AM CST
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Pulaski County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 216 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 00:00Z on 1995-03-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 305 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 00:00Z on 1995-03-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 313 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
305 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
558 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
313 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
367 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLIT 071137 RRA
SVRLIT
ARC119-071230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
534 AM CST TUE MAR 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS
 
   ...PULASKI COUNTY
 
AT 532 AM...RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN PULASKI
COUUNTY MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 40 MPH AND SOME TREES WERE REPORTED DOWN IN SALINE AND HOT
SPRING COUNTY ABOUT 520 AM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OVER THE
GREATER LITTLE ROCK AREA BETWEEN 545 AND 615 THIS MORNING.
 
 
 
&
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 6, 8:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKAshley62 min
Mar 6, 9:34 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKUnion26 min
Mar 6, 9:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCalhoun34 min
Mar 6, 10:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDallas32 min
Mar 6, 10:19 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski41 min
Mar 6, 10:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJefferson28 min
Mar 7, 6:33 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLonoke27 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.