Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 1995, 6:06 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Arkansas. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 30, 1995, 6:06 PM CDT (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 1995, 6:38 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 263 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Apr 30, 4:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
ARZ003>009-012>018-020>028-030>075-010300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 354 PM CDT SUN APR 30 1995 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL AND WESTERN ARKANSAS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN ALL OF ARKANSAS TONIGHT INTO EARLY MONDAY AND HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE IN MUCH OF ARKANSAS LATER TONIGHT INTO MONDAY. AT 400 PM CDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAD RAPIDLY DEVELOPED IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA. THEY WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN ARKANSAS BY 500 PM AND WILL MOVE THROUGH PARTS OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS DURING THE EVENING. IN ADDITION...A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL APPROACH ARKANSAS LATER TONIGHT AND WILL MOVE THROUGH THE STATE ON MONDAY. STRONG OR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY MOVE INTO ARKANSAS LATER TONIGHT AND CONTINUE INTO MONDAY DUE TO THIS. THE BEST THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE IN SOUTHERN ARKANSAS...WHERE THE AIR WILL BE THE MOST UNSTABLE. HEAVY RAINS MAY ALSO DEVELOP ACROSS ARKANSAS LATER TONIGHT. MOISTURE WILL MOVE OVER A WARM FRONT AND COULD RESULT IN HEAVY RAINS...ESPECIALLY IN CENTRAL AND NORTHERN SECTIONS. PEOPLE ACROSS ARKANSAS SHOULD REVIEW THEIR SEVERE WEATHER SAFETY RULES AND LISTEN FOR LATER BULLETINS FOR WARNINGS OR OTHER WATCHES. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT MAY CONTINUE INTO MONDAY MORNING. 29
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Scott, Yell | 51 min |
| Apr 30, 5:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Polk | 56 min |
| Apr 30, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 51 min |
| Apr 30, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe, Prairie | 54 min |
| Apr 30, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 57 min |
| Apr 30, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Saline | 57 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.