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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Little Rock, AR

March 14, 1996Franklin County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 1996, 8:35 PM CST for Franklin County, Arkansas. It was in force for 40 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
Mar 14, 1996, 8:35 PM CST (02:35 UTC)
Expired
Mar 14, 1996, 9:15 PM CST
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Franklin County, AR

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 14, 9:15 PM CSTHail 0.75Cass, 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 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 155 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 1996-03-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 93 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1996-03-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 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
93 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1448 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
150 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
Mar 14, 9:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFranklin30 min
Mar 14, 9:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson50 min
Mar 14, 11:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBoone45 min
Mar 15, 12:27 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMarion48 min
Mar 15, 12:39 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter51 min
Mar 15, 1:07 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFulton, Izard53 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.