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Tornado Warning 64, NWS Little Rock, AR

December 23, 1996Jackson County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Dec 23, 1996, 3:53 PM CST for Jackson County, Arkansas. It was in force for 32 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, 3:53 PM CST (21:53 UTC)
Expired
Dec 23, 1996, 4:25 PM CST
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Jackson County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Dec 23, 4:00 PM CSTThunderstorm Wind 50Tuckerman, 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 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 143 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 12:00Z on 1996-12-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 82 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 12:00Z on 1996-12-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 366 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
82 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
366 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
431 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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
Dec 23, 12:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKVan Buren48 min
Dec 23, 12:51 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKStone49 min
Dec 23, 12:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPerry48 min
Dec 23, 1:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFulton, Izard47 min
Dec 23, 1:22 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway48 min
Dec 23, 1:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKVan Buren50 min
Dec 23, 1:34 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSharp46 min
Dec 23, 1:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne, Faulkner64 min
Dec 23, 1:54 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKSharp36 min
Dec 23, 2:19 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKCleburne51 min
Dec 23, 2:31 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence64 min
Dec 23, 2:52 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKIndependence33 min
Dec 23, 2:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner48 min
Dec 23, 3:01 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKWhite49 min
Dec 23, 3:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSaline50 min
Dec 23, 3:18 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski62 min
Dec 23, 3:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite50 min
Dec 23, 3:27 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKHot Spring48 min
Dec 23, 3:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJackson, White63 min
Dec 23, 3:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGrant63 min
Dec 23, 3:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLonoke63 min
Dec 23, 3:49 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKSaline36 min
Dec 23, 3:50 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKWhite35 min
Dec 23, 4:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJackson35 min
Dec 23, 4:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPrairie, White, Woodruff49 min
Dec 23, 5:04 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJefferson, Lonoke31 min
Dec 23, 5:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleveland, Grant, Jefferson47 min
Dec 23, 5:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDallas47 min
Dec 23, 5:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas50 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.