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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 6, 1996Perry County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at May 6, 1996, 3:53 PM CDT for Perry County, Arkansas. It was in force for 67 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
May 6, 1996, 3:53 PM CDT (20:53 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 1996, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Perry County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 6, 4:00 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 50Nimrod, 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 231 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 12:00Z on 1996-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 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 12:00Z on 1996-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 273 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-369 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1267 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
273 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
338 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
May 6, 4:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMarion33 min
May 6, 5:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBoone43 min
May 6, 7:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson36 min
May 6, 7:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFulton43 min
May 6, 8:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIzard67 min
May 6, 8:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence59 min
May 6, 1:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk43 min
May 6, 4:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner59 min
May 6, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite59 min
May 6, 4:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark27 min
May 6, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKHot Spring42 min
May 6, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark22 min
May 6, 5:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner39 min
May 6, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark, Dallas30 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.