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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Little Rock, AR

April 19, 1996Searcy County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 1996, 10:13 PM CDT for Searcy County, Arkansas. It was in force for 32 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 19, 1996, 10:13 PM CDT (03:13 UTC)
Expired
Apr 19, 1996, 10:45 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Searcy County, AR

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 19, 10:20 PM CDTHail 1Harriet, 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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 148 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 1996-04-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1996-04-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -22 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3220 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
141 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
Apr 19, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSearcy34 min
Apr 19, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKNewton46 min
Apr 19, 7:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBoone54 min
Apr 19, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter50 min
Apr 19, 7:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKStone42 min
Apr 19, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMarion64 min
Apr 19, 8:03 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKStone42 min
Apr 19, 8:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIzard53 min
Apr 19, 8:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKNewton52 min
Apr 19, 8:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFulton25 min
Apr 19, 8:31 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKSearcy44 min
Apr 19, 8:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSharp51 min
Apr 19, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter48 min
Apr 19, 8:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFulton53 min
Apr 19, 8:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMarion34 min
Apr 19, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFranklin45 min
Apr 19, 9:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBoone51 min
Apr 19, 9:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk47 min
Apr 19, 9:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson, Logan61 min
Apr 19, 9:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIzard51 min
Apr 19, 9:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKNewton51 min
Apr 19, 9:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKScott51 min
Apr 19, 9:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMarion46 min
Apr 19, 9:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMontgomery57 min
Apr 19, 9:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope, Searcy, Yell66 min
Apr 19, 9:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter66 min
Apr 19, 9:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFulton48 min
Apr 19, 9:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk63 min
Apr 19, 10:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKStone, Van Buren51 min
Apr 19, 10:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway51 min
Apr 19, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKScott31 min
Apr 19, 10:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMontgomery59 min
Apr 19, 10:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland, Perry52 min
Apr 19, 10:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne, Faulkner52 min
Apr 19, 10:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFulton30 min
Apr 19, 10:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence, Sharp42 min
Apr 19, 10:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope, Yell55 min
Apr 19, 11:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKVan Buren28 min
Apr 20, 12:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark47 min
Apr 20, 12:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKScott43 min
Apr 20, 12:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWoodruff51 min
Apr 20, 12:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKYell38 min
Apr 20, 1:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKVan Buren34 min
Apr 20, 1:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKOuachita45 min
Apr 20, 1:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne44 min
Apr 20, 1:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCalhoun37 min
Apr 20, 2:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner, White59 min
Apr 20, 3:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski33 min
Apr 20, 4:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPrairie, Woodruff44 min
Apr 20, 4:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPrairie, Woodruff44 min
Apr 20, 5:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBradley35 min
Apr 20, 4:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBradley57 min
Apr 20, 5:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDesha38 min

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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.