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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Apr 21, 1996, 11:27 PM CDT for Franklin County, Arkansas. It was in force for 63 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 21, 1996, 11:27 PM CDT (04:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1996, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 11:55 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Fern, 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, 4.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1598 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 594 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLIT 220428 TORLIT ARC047-220530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1127 PM CDT SUN APR 21 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST ARKANSAS ...FRANKLIN COUNTY AT 1124 PM...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS ON THE GROUND IN THE VAN BUREN/FORT SMITH AREA IN CRAWFORD COUNTY. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. EXTENSIVE WIND DAMAGE HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. 31/45
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 12:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton | 42 min |
| Apr 22, 12:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Newton | 28 min |
| Apr 22, 1:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Boone | 69 min |
| Apr 22, 1:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Marion | 64 min |
| Apr 22, 1:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone | 38 min |
| Apr 22, 2:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter | 51 min |
| Apr 22, 2:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton | 44 min |
| Apr 22, 2:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Boone | 3 hr |
| Apr 22, 3:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Marion | 43 min |
| Apr 22, 3:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Marion | 31 min |
| Apr 22, 3:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson | 27 min |
| Apr 22, 3:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton | 31 min |
| Apr 22, 3:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope | 43 min |
| Apr 22, 3:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Pope | 34 min |
| Apr 22, 3:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy | 40 min |
| Apr 22, 4:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Van Buren | 54 min |
| Apr 22, 4:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Scott | 63 min |
| Apr 22, 4:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton | 44 min |
| Apr 22, 4:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Stone | 52 min |
| Apr 22, 5:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne | 36 min |
| Apr 22, 12:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pike | 68 min |
| Apr 22, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson | 60 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.