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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Little Rock, AR

April 14, 1996Stone County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 1996, 7:00 PM CDT for Stone County, Arkansas. It was in force for 45 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: Apr 14, 1996, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
Expired: Apr 14, 1996, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

County Stone County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 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, 7:10 PM CDT	Tornado F4	Fox, 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, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 187 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2368 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 208 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLIT 150001
TORLIT
ARC137-150045-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
700 PM CDT SUN APR 14 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS
 
   ...STONE COUNTY
 
AT 659 PM CDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST
NORTH OF DENNARD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS MOVEMENT WILL TAKE
THE STORM BETWEEN FOX AND TIMBO.
 
DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO.  CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS.  IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF
A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. ^ IF NO
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
 
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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, 3 hours 5 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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Local storm report, Apr 14, 6:58 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

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

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

0440 PM    5 N MACON                 AR   .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/96   PULASKI

0445 PM    MOOREFIELD                AR   .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/96   INDEPENDENCE

0458 PM    ROMANCE                   AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/14/96   WHITE

0615 PM    NEWPOPRT                   AR   .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/96   JACKSON

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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, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun	22 min
Apr 14, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley	44 min
Apr 14, 7:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Izard	38 min
Apr 14, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner	34 min
Apr 14, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Drew	45 min
Apr 14, 8:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	White	39 min
Apr 14, 8:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Izard, Sharp	45 min
Apr 14, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha	37 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.