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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 25, 1995Lonoke County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1995, 4:08 PM CDT for Lonoke County, Arkansas. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 25, 1995, 4:08 PM CDT (21:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

County Lonoke County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 1028 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1273 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMEM 252113 RRA
SVRLIT
ARC085-252200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
ISSUED BY MEMPHIS TN
408 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS
 
   ...LONOKE COUNTY
 
AT 400 PM A LINE OF SEVERE STORMS EXTENDED FROM 10 MILES WEST OF LONOKE
TO WRIGHTSVILLE IN PULASKI COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE
EAST AT 15 MPH.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 24, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Woodruff	35 min
Jul 25, 1:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	40 min
Jul 25, 2:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	White	64 min
Jul 25, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner	56 min
Jul 25, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Prairie	61 min
Jul 25, 2:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	51 min
Jul 25, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski	47 min
Jul 25, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe	48 min
Jul 25, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas	45 min
Jul 25, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski, Saline	53 min
Jul 25, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas	52 min
Jul 25, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas	36 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1995 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.