Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 1996, 11:08 PM CDT for Jackson County, Arkansas. It was in force for 37 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
- Apr 28, 1996, 11:08 PM CDT (04:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 1996, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 11:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Grubbs, 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 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 1805 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1237 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 310 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 9.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLIT 290408 SVRLIT ARC067-290445- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1108 PM CDT SUN APR 28 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST ARKANSAS ...JACKSON COUNTY AT 1105 PM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF DENMARK. MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS. 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 WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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 28, 7:48 PM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
ARZ003>009-012>018-020>027-030>034-037>046-050>056-059>063-066-067- 070>073-290300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 747 PM CDT SUN APR 28 1996 ...TORNADO WATCHES COVER MUCH OF ARKANSAS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR 7 COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ANOTHER TORNADO WATCH COVERS MOST OF THE REMAINDER OF ARKANSAS... EXCEPT EASTERN SECTIONS...UNTIL 100 AM CDT. AT 745 PM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MAKING ITS WAY THROUGH PARTS OF WESTERN ARKANSAS. IN ADDITION...OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OUT AHEAD OF THE LINE. THE AIR OVER ARKANSAS IS VERY WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE. THUS...THE STAGE IS SET FOR SEVERE WEATHER. THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND POSSIBLY A FEW TORNADOES. PEOPLE IN THE AREAS COVERED BY THE TORNADO WATCHES WILL NEED TO KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON THE WEATHER...AND LISTEN FOR SEVERE WEATHER WARNINGS. bTHE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IN ARKANSAS IS EXPECTED TO LAST WELL INTO THE NIGHT. 28
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 9:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
ARZ003-004-012-013-020-021-030-037-040-290400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 954 PM CDT SUN APR 28 1996 ...SOME COUNTIES IN WESTERN ARKANSAS CLEARED FROM TORNADO WATCH... THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WESTERN ARKANSAS HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM THE TORNADO WATCH... BOONE...MARION...NEWTON...SEARCY...FRANKLIN...JOHNSON...LOGAN... SCOTT...AND POLK. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED IN THESE COUNTIES...AS THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS HAVE NOW MOVED OFF TO THE EAST. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. THIS WATCH COVERS MOST OF THE STATE...EXCEPT FOR THE EASTERN PART AND THE COUNTIES THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN CLEARED IN THE WEST. 28
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Scott | 49 min |
| Apr 28, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Franklin | 49 min |
| Apr 28, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk | 67 min |
| Apr 28, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Van Buren | 43 min |
| Apr 28, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy | 38 min |
| Apr 28, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pike | 36 min |
| Apr 28, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton | 37 min |
| Apr 28, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Izard | 42 min |
| Apr 28, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway | 42 min |
| Apr 28, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Perry | 48 min |
| Apr 28, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 42 min |
| Apr 28, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway | 44 min |
| Apr 28, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland | 51 min |
| Apr 28, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Perry | 47 min |
| Apr 28, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Saline | 49 min |
| Apr 28, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Yell | 47 min |
| Apr 29, 12:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway | 42 min |
| Apr 29, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Prairie | 47 min |
| Apr 29, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Woodruff | 43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.