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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 511, NWS Little Rock, AR

September 24, 1996Pope County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 24, 1996, 12:31 AM CDT for Pope County, Arkansas. It was in force for 19 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 24, 1996, 12:31 AM CDT (05:31 UTC)
Expired
Sep 24, 1996, 12:50 AM CDT
In force
19 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Pope County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 175 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 00:00Z on 1996-09-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 00:00Z on 1996-09-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 87 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-354 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
527 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
230 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.2

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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
Sep 23, 10:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFranklin43 min
Sep 23, 11:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson, Newton60 min
Sep 23, 11:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLogan, Pope, Yell59 min
Sep 23, 11:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFranklin32 min
Sep 24, 12:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKScott, Yell60 min
Sep 24, 12:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway, Van Buren73 min
Sep 24, 12:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland, Montgomery73 min
Sep 24, 12:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk73 min
Sep 24, 12:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPerry65 min
Sep 24, 12:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner, Pulaski, Saline61 min
Sep 24, 12:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland, Hot Spring61 min
Sep 24, 1:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne61 min
Sep 24, 1:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner, Pulaski32 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.