Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 607, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 23, 1996, 3:05 PM CST for Saline County, Arkansas. It was in force for 50 min. 3 reports 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
- Dec 23, 1996, 3:05 PM CST (21:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 23, 1996, 3:55 PM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saline County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 3:28 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Benton, AR | |
| Dec 23, 3:28 PM CST | Hail 1 | Benton, AR | |
| Dec 23, 3:55 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Traskwood, 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, 9.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 596 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 366 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 431 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
384 WUUS1 KLIT 232105 RRA SVRLIT ARC125-232155- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 305 PM CST MON DEC 23 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK AR HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 355 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS ...SALINE COUNTY AT 304 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY DOPPLER RADAR 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF HOT SPRINGS OR IN THE VICINITY OF HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE AROUND 304 PM CST ... OWENSVILLE AROUND 305 PM CST ... CROWS AROUND 310 PM CST ... PARON AROUND 320 PM CST ... CONGO AROUND 325 PM CST ... 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. 46/206
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 12:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Van Buren | 48 min |
| Dec 23, 12:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Stone | 49 min |
| Dec 23, 12:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Perry | 48 min |
| Dec 23, 1:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton, Izard | 47 min |
| Dec 23, 1:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway | 48 min |
| Dec 23, 1:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Van Buren | 50 min |
| Dec 23, 1:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Sharp | 46 min |
| Dec 23, 1:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Faulkner | 64 min |
| Dec 23, 1:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Sharp | 36 min |
| Dec 23, 2:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Cleburne | 51 min |
| Dec 23, 2:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence | 64 min |
| Dec 23, 2:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Independence | 33 min |
| Dec 23, 2:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 48 min |
| Dec 23, 3:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | White | 49 min |
| Dec 23, 3:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 62 min |
| Dec 23, 3:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White | 50 min |
| Dec 23, 3:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 48 min |
| Dec 23, 3:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson, White | 63 min |
| Dec 23, 3:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant | 63 min |
| Dec 23, 3:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 63 min |
| Dec 23, 3:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Saline | 36 min |
| Dec 23, 3:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | White | 35 min |
| Dec 23, 3:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Jackson | 32 min |
| Dec 23, 4:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson | 35 min |
| Dec 23, 4:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Prairie, White, Woodruff | 49 min |
| Dec 23, 5:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson, Lonoke | 31 min |
| Dec 23, 5:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Grant, Jefferson | 47 min |
| Dec 23, 5:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Dallas | 47 min |
| Dec 23, 5:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 50 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.