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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 331, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 27, 1996Pike County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1996, 1:56 PM CDT for Pike 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
May 27, 1996, 1:56 PM CDT (18:56 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1996, 2:45 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Pike County, AR

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 27, 2:10 PM CDTHail 1Pisgah, 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 305 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1996-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1996-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 114 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1674 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
159 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 3:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFranklin43 min
May 27, 4:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson, Newton52 min
May 27, 8:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope, Yell50 min
May 27, 10:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark68 min
May 27, 11:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGrant51 min
May 27, 12:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleveland, Dallas60 min
May 27, 12:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJefferson68 min
May 27, 12:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas, Prairie57 min
May 27, 12:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMonroe50 min
May 27, 1:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJefferson28 min
May 27, 2:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark56 min
May 27, 2:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas42 min
May 27, 2:40 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKClark35 min
May 27, 2:48 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKHot Spring27 min
May 27, 3:04 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKDallas41 min
May 27, 3:18 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKSaline42 min
May 27, 3:37 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKPulaski53 min
May 27, 3:44 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKDallas46 min
May 27, 4:37 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKYell53 min
May 27, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope43 min
May 27, 5:04 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKConway41 min
May 27, 5:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner42 min
May 27, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite59 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.