Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 47, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Sep 15, 1996, 7:05 PM CDT for Pope County, Arkansas. It was in force for 35 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
- Sep 15, 1996, 7:05 PM CDT (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 1996, 7:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pope County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 7:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Tilly, 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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 289 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
- 558 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 415 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy, Van Buren | 47 min |
| Sep 15, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Jefferson, Lincoln | 48 min |
| Sep 15, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Van Buren | 50 min |
| Sep 16, 3:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Yell | 63 min |
| Sep 16, 4:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Van Buren | 49 min |
| Sep 16, 5:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 31 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.