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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Oct 26, 1995, 10:47 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Arkansas. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 26, 1995, 10:47 PM CDT (03:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 26, 1995, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 2747 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 952 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 419 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 5.7
- Supercell composite
- 22.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLIT 270348 TORLIT ARC097-270430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1047 PM CDT THU OCT 26 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST ARKANSAS ...EASTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY AT 1046 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO IN EASTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY NEAR WASHITA MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS.^ ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. 31/207
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 1 minute 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. 31
Special weather statement, Oct 26, 6:51 PM CDT, 3 hours 56 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. 31
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Franklin | 52 min |
| Oct 26, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery | 66 min |
| Oct 26, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson | 57 min |
| Oct 26, 10:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Yell | 29 min |
| Oct 26, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton, Pope | 55 min |
| Oct 26, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence | 58 min |
| Oct 26, 10:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Garland | 40 min |
| Oct 26, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson | 52 min |
| Oct 26, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy, Van Buren | 49 min |
| Oct 26, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope | 42 min |
| Oct 26, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Stone | 47 min |
| Oct 26, 11:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Hot Spring, Saline | 57 min |
| Oct 27, 12:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland | 39 min |
| Oct 27, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Franklin | 50 min |
| Oct 27, 12:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Garland | 3 hr |
| Oct 27, 12:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Hot Spring, Saline | 40 min |
| Oct 27, 1:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson | 46 min |
| Oct 27, 2:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 37 min |
| Oct 27, 2:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner | 58 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.