Severe Thunderstorm Warning 521, NWS Little Rock, AR

Issued

Sep 26, 1996, 8:30 AM CDT (13:30 UTC)

Expired

Sep 26, 1996, 9:15 AM CDT

In force

45 min

Issued by

NWS Little Rock, AR

Area

Whole counties

Counties Newton County, AR, Searcy County, 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.

000 
TTAA00 KLIT 261332 COR
SVRLIT
ARC101-129-261415-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
830 AM CDT THU SEP 26 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK AR HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS

   ...SOUTHEASTERN NEWTON COUNTY
   ...SEARCY COUNTY

AT 828 AM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
FROM NEAR ST JOE...ACROSS DEER...NEAR FALLSVILLE. THE LINE WAS MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS MOVEMENT WILL TAKE THE LINE ACROSS ST
JOE...GILBERT...MARSHALL...WOOD SPRINGS...AND LURTON.
SOME SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPE,CTED ACROSS THE WARNING AREA. HIGH
WINDS MAY DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES...AND COULD MOVE UNANCHORED
STRUCTURES. AS THE STORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA...HEAD FOR A STRONG
BUILDING. STAY INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS PASS.

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

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.