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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 340, NWS Little Rock, AR

October 2, 1995Pope County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 2, 1995, 5:05 PM CDT for Pope County, Arkansas. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 2, 1995, 5:05 PM CDT (22:05 UTC)
Expired
Oct 2, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Pope County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 175 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 1995-10-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-10-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 88 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1901 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
Oct 2, 4:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski44 min
Oct 2, 3:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBoone60 min
Oct 2, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSearcy29 min
Oct 2, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMarion64 min
Oct 2, 4:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson39 min
Oct 2, 4:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKNewton66 min
Oct 2, 5:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSearcy68 min
Oct 2, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKVan Buren65 min
Oct 2, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSaline55 min
Oct 2, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner, Pulaski65 min
Oct 2, 6:43 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKPulaski32 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.