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Tornado Warning 54, NWS Little Rock, AR

October 17, 1996Garland County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Oct 17, 1996, 5:26 PM CDT for Garland County, Arkansas. It was in force for 49 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
Oct 17, 1996, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
Expired
Oct 17, 1996, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Garland County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 265 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 1996-10-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 943 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 1996-10-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 424 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
943 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-264 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
938 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
424 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
414 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 17, 3:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKNewton50 min
Oct 17, 3:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson48 min
Oct 17, 4:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKScott36 min
Oct 17, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKYell47 min
Oct 17, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland, Perry48 min
Oct 17, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMontgomery19 min
Oct 17, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope, Van Buren47 min
Oct 17, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter, Fulton50 min
Oct 17, 5:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIzard, Stone61 min
Oct 17, 5:38 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKStone47 min
Oct 17, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSaline47 min
Oct 17, 6:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland, Hot Spring51 min
Oct 17, 6:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner48 min
Oct 17, 6:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGrant48 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.