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Tornado Warning 41, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 22, 1996Independence County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 1996, 5:17 PM CDT for Independence County, Arkansas. It was in force for 28 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
Jul 22, 1996, 5:17 PM CDT (22:17 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 1996, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Independence County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 179 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1996-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1292 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1996-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1292 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-141 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1480 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
140 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
Jul 22, 4:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJackson39 min
Jul 22, 4:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSearcy, Stone42 min
Jul 22, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFulton31 min
Jul 22, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence40 min
Jul 22, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSharp46 min
Jul 22, 5:19 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKSharp26 min
Jul 22, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJackson51 min
Jul 22, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence45 min
Jul 22, 5:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne48 min
Jul 22, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSharp30 min
Jul 22, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski48 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Arkansas, 1996Every tornado warning in 1996Tornadoes in 1996

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.