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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Little Rock, AR

October 2, 1995Pulaski County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Oct 2, 1995, 6:43 PM CDT for Pulaski County, Arkansas. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 2, 1995, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
Expired
Oct 2, 1995, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Pulaski County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 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 12:00Z on 1995-10-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 100 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 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 12:00Z on 1995-10-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 150 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 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
100 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
676 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
150 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
212 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLIT 022342
TORLIT
ARC119-030015-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
643 PM CDT MON OCT 2 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS
 
   ...PULASKI COUNTY
 
AT 640 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO JUST WEST OF LITTLE
ROCK. MOVEMENT WAS EAST 25 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
25/103

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, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope25 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

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.