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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Little Rock, AR

April 14, 1996Van Buren County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 1996, 6:53 PM CDT for Van Buren County, Arkansas. It was in force for 22 min. 2 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: Apr 14, 1996, 6:53 PM CDT (23:53 UTC)
Expired: Apr 14, 1996, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

County Van Buren County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 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
Apr 14, 6:55 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Dennard, AR
Apr 14, 6:55 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Dennard, 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 186 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 44 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -501 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1228 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 422 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 602 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 14, 3:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
355 PM CDT SUN APR 14 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1125 AM    BEARDEN                   AR   .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/96   OUACHITA

1155 AM    THORNTON                  AR   .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/96   CALHOUN

1205 PM    FORDYCE                   AR   .5 INCH HAIL
04/14/96   DALLAS

1243 PM    6 N WARREN                AR   .5 INCH HAIL
04/14/96   BRADLEY

1244 PM    CONWAY                    AR   .5 INCH HAIL
04/14/96   FAULKNER

1245 PM    3 W CONWAY                AR   .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/96   FAULKNER

1253 PM    RYE                       AR   .5 INCH HAIL
04/14/96   CLEVELAND                      WINDS 30-40 MPH

0107 PM    PINE BLUFF                AR   .5 INCH HAIL
04/14/96   JEFFERSON

0115 PM    REDFIELD                  AR   .5 INCH HAIL
04/14/96   JEFFERSON

0117 PM    10 S LITTLE ROCK          AR   .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/96   PULASKI

0153 PM    GRAVEL RIDGE              AR   .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/96   PULASKI

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 14, 2:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Pike	62 min
Apr 14, 3:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark	68 min
Apr 14, 3:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland	42 min
Apr 14, 3:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Saline	60 min
Apr 14, 4:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski	53 min
Apr 14, 10:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Ouachita	48 min
Apr 14, 11:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Dallas	48 min
Apr 14, 12:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Cleveland	41 min
Apr 14, 12:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski	43 min
Apr 14, 12:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Drew, Lincoln	53 min
Apr 14, 12:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jefferson	53 min
Apr 14, 12:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner	61 min
Apr 14, 1:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha	52 min
Apr 14, 1:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski	37 min
Apr 14, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski	53 min
Apr 14, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, White	46 min
Apr 14, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone	48 min
Apr 14, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence	50 min
Apr 14, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	White	29 min
Apr 14, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jackson	44 min
Apr 14, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Van Buren	31 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.