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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Little Rock, AR

February 27, 1996Saline County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 1996, 1:41 PM CST for Saline County, Arkansas. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Feb 27, 1996, 1:41 PM CST (19:41 UTC)
Expired
Feb 27, 1996, 2:30 PM CST
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Saline County, AR

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Feb 27, 1:50 PM CSTHail 0.75Haskell, AR

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 250 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 1996-02-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 471 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 12:00Z on 1996-02-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 196 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
471 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
592 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
196 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLIT 271941 RRA
SVRLIT
ARC125-272030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
141 PM CST TUE FEB 27 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  230 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS
 
   ...SALINE COUNTY
 
AT 140 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
OWENSVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING JWEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
16

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 27, 10:28 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLogan47 min
Feb 27, 11:07 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope53 min
Feb 27, 11:32 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway, Van Buren43 min
Feb 27, 12:03 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope42 min
Feb 27, 12:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway, Van Buren49 min
Feb 27, 12:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne57 min
Feb 27, 12:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner46 min
Feb 27, 1:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence50 min
Feb 27, 1:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite70 min
Feb 27, 1:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPike43 min
Feb 27, 1:39 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark51 min
Feb 27, 1:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKHot Spring62 min
Feb 27, 2:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski60 min
Feb 27, 2:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite49 min
Feb 27, 2:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGrant, Saline43 min
Feb 27, 2:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJefferson47 min
Feb 27, 3:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKOuachita59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.