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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at May 27, 1996, 9:37 PM CDT for Saline County, Arkansas. It was in force for 53 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, 9:37 PM CDT (02:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1996, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saline County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:39 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 2600 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 885 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 8.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLIT 280238 TORLIT ARC125-280330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 937 PM CDT MON MAY 27 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS ...SALINE COUNTY AT 0935 CDT...A TORNADO WAS LOCATED AT HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE AT 0934 PM CDT. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. 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 CUSHIdONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. &
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, May 27, 5:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
544 PM CDT MON MAY 27 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0235 AM SPRINGDALE AR .5 INCH HAIL
05/27/96 WASHINGTON ALONG WITH STRONG WINDS
AND HEAVY RAINS.
0815 AM DANVILLE AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/96 YELL RECEIVED FROM STATE
WARNING POINT
1040 AM CURTIS AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/96 CLARK FROM SHERIFF'S OFFICE
0224 PM OKOLONA AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/96 CLARK ONE MILE NORTH OF OKOLONA.
RECEIVED FROM THE CURTIS
P.D.
0245 PM CURTIS AR TORNADO
05/27/96 CLARK 1 HOUSE DESTROYED AT
CURTIS, TREES DOWN, OTHER
DAMAGE. RECEIVED FROM
CLARK COUNTY OES
COORDINATOR.
0335 PM BENTON AR TORNADO
05/27/96 SALINE PUBLIC REPORT OF A TORNADO
VISIBLE FROM WAL-MART
PARKING LOT IN BENTON.
0335 PM DALARK AR WIND DAMAGE
05/27/96 DALLAS TREES DOWN ALONG HWY 7
JUST SOUTH OF DALARK.
REPORT FROM THE PUBLIC.
0336 PM HOT SPRINGS AR
05/27/96 GARLAND THE PUBLIC REPORTED A
FUNNEL CLOUD OVER THE CITY
OF HOT SPRINGS
0341 PM BRYANT AR TORNADO
05/27/96 SALINE A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY
THE PUBLIC IN BRYANT.
0341 PM MANNING AR TORNADO
05/27/96 DALLAS PUBLIC REPORT OF A TORNADO
AT MANNING WITH DAMAGE TO
CARS, TREES AND HOUSES
0450 PM CENTERVILLE AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/96 YELL HAIL REPORTED BY THE
COOPERATIVE OBSERVER AND
THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE AT
CENTERVILLE AND MOUNT
GEORGE (2 W OF
CENTERVILLE).
0502 PM CENTERVILLE AR 50 MPH TSTM GUST
05/27/96 YELL AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS
REPORTED 50 MPH WINDS.
0342 PM GREENBRIER AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/96 FAULKNER HAMS AND COOPERATIVE OBSERVER
REPORTED HAIL RANGING IN SIZE
FROM NICKEL TO QUARTER TO
GOLFBALL.The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 46 min |
| May 27, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Woodruff | 49 min |
| May 27, 8:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | White | 69 min |
| May 27, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 37 min |
| May 27, 8:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Polk | 39 min |
| May 27, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Prairie | 46 min |
| May 27, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway | 42 min |
| May 27, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland | 53 min |
| May 27, 9:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Garland | 38 min |
| May 27, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Monroe | 51 min |
| May 27, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Pike | 50 min |
| May 27, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White | 49 min |
| May 27, 10:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 68 min |
| May 27, 10:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff | 4 hr |
| May 27, 10:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Montgomery | 5 hr |
| May 27, 10:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline | 4 hr |
| May 27, 10:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Garland | 4 hr |
| May 27, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Saline | 59 min |
| May 27, 10:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 54 min |
| May 27, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant, Hot Spring | 52 min |
| May 28, 12:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland | 37 min |
| May 28, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant | 35 min |
| May 28, 1:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson | 27 min |
| May 28, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant, Saline | 30 min |
| May 28, 1:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 53 min |
| May 28, 1:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson | 67 min |
| May 28, 2:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 68 min |
| May 28, 3:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson | 55 min |
| May 28, 3:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Jefferson | 3 hr |
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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.