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Tornado Warning 44, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 28, 1996White County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Jul 28, 1996, 7:18 PM CDT for White County, Arkansas. It was in force for 27 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
Jul 28, 1996, 7:18 PM CDT (00:18 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 1996, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County White County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:15 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, 7:19 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 50Pangburn, 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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 260 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 00:00Z on 1996-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1526 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1996-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 67 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1526 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1594 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
3.0

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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 28, 7:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne40 min
Jul 28, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite31 min
Jul 28, 9:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope29 min
Jul 28, 10:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope, Yell36 min
Jul 29, 2:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFulton, Izard, Sharp41 min
Jul 29, 3:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSharp45 min
Jul 29, 3:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter, Marion, Searcy44 min
Jul 29, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence40 min
Jul 29, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJackson43 min
Jul 29, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite50 min
Jul 29, 5:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner48 min
Jul 29, 6:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas36 min
Jul 29, 6:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWoodruff53 min
Jul 29, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDesha47 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.