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Tornado Warning 58, NWS Little Rock, AR

December 23, 1996Sharp County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Dec 23, 1996, 1:54 PM CST for Sharp County, Arkansas. It was in force for 36 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: Dec 23, 1996, 1:54 PM CST (19:54 UTC)
Expired: Dec 23, 1996, 2:30 PM CST
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

County Sharp County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Dec 23, 2:10 PM CST	Hail 0.88	Hardy, 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 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
Dec 23, 12:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Van Buren	48 min
Dec 23, 12:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Stone	49 min
Dec 23, 12:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Perry	48 min
Dec 23, 1:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton, Izard	47 min
Dec 23, 1:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway	48 min
Dec 23, 1:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Van Buren	50 min
Dec 23, 1:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Sharp	46 min
Dec 23, 1:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Faulkner	64 min
Dec 23, 2:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Cleburne	51 min
Dec 23, 2:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence	64 min
Dec 23, 2:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Independence	33 min
Dec 23, 2:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner	48 min
Dec 23, 3:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	White	49 min
Dec 23, 3:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Saline	50 min
Dec 23, 3:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski	62 min
Dec 23, 3:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	White	50 min
Dec 23, 3:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Hot Spring	48 min
Dec 23, 3:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jackson, White	63 min
Dec 23, 3:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant	63 min
Dec 23, 3:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	63 min
Dec 23, 3:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Saline	36 min
Dec 23, 3:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	White	35 min
Dec 23, 3:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Jackson	32 min
Dec 23, 4:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jackson	35 min
Dec 23, 4:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Prairie, White, Woodruff	49 min
Dec 23, 5:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jefferson, Lonoke	31 min
Dec 23, 5:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Grant, Jefferson	47 min
Dec 23, 5:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Dallas	47 min
Dec 23, 5:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas	50 min

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.