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Tornado Warning 53, NWS Little Rock, AR

September 26, 1996Pulaski County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Sep 26, 1996, 4:45 PM CDT for Pulaski County, Arkansas. It was in force for 45 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 26, 1996, 4:45 PM CDT (21:45 UTC)
Expired: Sep 26, 1996, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

County Pulaski County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 216 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 173 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -138 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 929 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 176 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 226 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

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

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 26, 11:28 AM CDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 26, 7:38 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Boone	47 min
Sep 26, 7:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Marion	49 min
Sep 26, 8:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Newton, Searcy	45 min
Sep 26, 9:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Stone	47 min
Sep 26, 9:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Izard	50 min
Sep 26, 10:24 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Newton	4 hr
Sep 26, 12:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Franklin	64 min
Sep 26, 1:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Franklin, Johnson, Newton	3 hr
Sep 26, 1:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Boone, Marion, Searcy	3 hr
Sep 26, 1:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan	62 min
Sep 26, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Yell	60 min
Sep 26, 2:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Polk, Scott	3 hr
Sep 26, 2:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pope	61 min
Sep 26, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Perry	61 min
Sep 26, 2:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Van Buren	62 min
Sep 26, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Montgomery, Saline	85 min
Sep 26, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Hot Spring	64 min
Sep 26, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner	76 min
Sep 26, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne	62 min
Sep 26, 3:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Hot Spring, Saline	61 min
Sep 26, 3:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Saline	64 min
Sep 26, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski	79 min
Sep 26, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	White	79 min
Sep 26, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Ouachita	61 min
Sep 26, 4:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Boone, Newton, Searcy	3 hr
Sep 26, 4:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Marion	3 hr
Sep 26, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence	75 min
Sep 26, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Dallas	70 min
Sep 26, 4:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Pulaski	61 min
Sep 26, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Cleveland	65 min
Sep 26, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	64 min
Sep 26, 5:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Pulaski	3 hr

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.