Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Oct 26, 1995, 10:50 PM CDT for Garland County, Arkansas. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 26, 1995, 10:50 PM CDT (03:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 26, 1995, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Garland County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
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 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 4 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
Special weather statement, Oct 26, 6:51 PM CDT, 3 hours 59 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, 10:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Montgomery | 43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.