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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 27, 1996Hot Spring County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at May 27, 1996, 2:48 PM CDT for Hot Spring County, Arkansas. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 1996, 2:48 PM CDT (19:48 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 1996, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

County Hot Spring County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 280 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: 2617 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 655 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 236 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.2
Supercell composite: 11.7

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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

Special weather statement, May 27, 2:38 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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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
May 27, 3:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Franklin	43 min
May 27, 4:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Newton	52 min
May 27, 8:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pope, Yell	50 min
May 27, 10:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark	68 min
May 27, 11:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant	51 min
May 27, 12:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Dallas	60 min
May 27, 12:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jefferson	68 min
May 27, 12:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Prairie	57 min
May 27, 12:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe	50 min
May 27, 1:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jefferson	28 min
May 27, 1:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pike	49 min
May 27, 2:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark	56 min
May 27, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas	42 min
May 27, 2:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Clark	35 min
May 27, 3:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Dallas	41 min
May 27, 3:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Saline	42 min
May 27, 3:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Pulaski	53 min
May 27, 3:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Dallas	46 min
May 27, 4:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Yell	53 min
May 27, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pope	43 min
May 27, 5:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Conway	41 min
May 27, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner	42 min
May 27, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	White	59 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.