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Tornado Warning 43, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 28, 1996Sharp County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Jul 28, 1996, 4:05 PM CDT for Sharp County, Arkansas. It was in force for 40 min. 3 reports 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
Jul 28, 1996, 4:05 PM CDT (21:05 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 1996, 4:45 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Sharp County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 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
Jul 28, 4:10 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 50Ash Flat, AR
Jul 28, 4:10 PM CDTHail 0.88Ash Flat, AR
Jul 28, 4:30 PM CDTHail 0.88Evening Shade, 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 223 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 1996-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1793 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 1996-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 156 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
1793 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
629 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
156 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
6.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 3:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFulton46 min
Jul 28, 3:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSharp54 min
Jul 28, 3:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIzard33 min
Jul 28, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIzard30 min
Jul 28, 4:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence37 min
Jul 28, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence33 min
Jul 28, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIzard52 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.