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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 355, NWS Little Rock, AR

October 26, 1995Jackson County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 26, 1995, 10:53 PM CDT for Jackson County, Arkansas. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 26, 1995, 10:53 PM CDT (03:53 UTC)
Expired
Oct 26, 1995, 11:45 PM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Jackson County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 143 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 1995-10-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1516 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 1995-10-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 310 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1516 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
653 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
310 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
465 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.8
Supercell composite
13.2

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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 severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 26, 6:46 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
ARZ003>009-012>018-020>028-030>039-270045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
646 PM CDT THU OCT 26 1995
...TORNADO WATCH FOR NORTH ARKANSAS UNTIL 100 AM CDT...

A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT INCLUDES PARTS OF ARKANSAS
GENERALLY NORTH OF A FORT SMITH...CONWAY...MEMPHIS LINE.

AT 645 PM CDT...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED IN NORTHEAST
OKLAHOMA...AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EASTWARD INTO THE UNSTABLE
ATMOSPHERE OVER ARKANSAS.

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Special weather statement, Oct 26, 6:51 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before
ARZ003>009-012>018-020>028-030>039-270045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
646 PM CDT THU OCT 26 1995
...TORNADO WATCH FOR NORTH ARKANSAS UNTIL 100 AM CDT...

A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT INCLUDES PARTS OF ARKANSAS
GENERALLY NORTH OF A FORT SMITH...CONWAY...MEMPHIS LINE.

AT 645 PM CDT...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED IN NORTHEAST
OKLAHOMA...AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EASTWARD INTO THE UNSTABLE
ATMOSPHERE OVER ARKANSAS.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 26, 9:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFranklin52 min
Oct 26, 9:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMontgomery66 min
Oct 26, 9:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson57 min
Oct 26, 10:16 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKMontgomery, Yell29 min
Oct 26, 10:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKNewton, Pope55 min
Oct 26, 10:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence58 min
Oct 26, 10:47 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKMontgomery43 min
Oct 26, 10:50 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKGarland40 min
Oct 26, 10:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSearcy, Van Buren49 min
Oct 26, 11:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope42 min
Oct 26, 11:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKStone47 min
Oct 26, 11:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKHot Spring, Saline57 min
Oct 27, 12:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland39 min
Oct 27, 12:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFranklin50 min
Oct 27, 12:32 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKGarland3 hr
Oct 27, 12:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKHot Spring, Saline40 min
Oct 27, 1:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJackson46 min
Oct 27, 2:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLonoke37 min
Oct 27, 2:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway, Faulkner58 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.