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Tornado Warning 48, NWS Little Rock, AR

September 16, 1996Yell County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Sep 16, 1996, 3:17 AM CDT for Yell County, Arkansas. It was in force for 63 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
Sep 16, 1996, 3:17 AM CDT (08:17 UTC)
Expired
Sep 16, 1996, 4:20 AM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Yell County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 316 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 00:00Z on 1996-09-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 558 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 00:00Z on 1996-09-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 270 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
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

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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
Sep 15, 7:05 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKPope35 min
Sep 15, 7:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSearcy, Van Buren47 min
Sep 15, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleveland, Jefferson, Lincoln48 min
Sep 15, 8:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKVan Buren50 min
Sep 16, 4:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway, Van Buren49 min
Sep 16, 5:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.