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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 27, 1997Cleveland County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1997, 3:17 AM CDT for Cleveland 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: May 27, 1997, 3:17 AM CDT (08:17 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 1997, 4:20 AM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

County Cleveland County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 27, 12:15 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr
May 27, 2:45 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 215 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: 4528 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1057 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.3

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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 severe thunderstorm 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, May 27, 1:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 27, 1:48 AM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 27, 1:49 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 27, 1:58 AM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 27, 3:04 AM CDT, 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 27, 3:08 AM CDT, 9 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
May 26, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton	46 min
May 26, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Sharp	62 min
May 26, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton	34 min
May 26, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Marion	48 min
May 26, 11:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Newton	65 min
May 26, 11:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk, Scott	60 min
May 26, 11:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Marion	46 min
May 26, 11:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone	34 min
May 27, 12:03 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Baxter	32 min
May 27, 12:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton	62 min
May 27, 12:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Searcy	50 min
May 27, 12:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Yell	61 min
May 27, 12:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Sharp	47 min
May 27, 12:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Marion	32 min
May 27, 12:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Izard	50 min
May 27, 12:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Fulton, Sharp	3 hr
May 27, 12:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Baxter	3 hr
May 27, 12:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Stone, Van Buren	63 min
May 27, 12:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter	49 min
May 27, 12:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Sharp	32 min
May 27, 1:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne	50 min
May 27, 1:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pike	62 min
May 27, 1:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland	62 min
May 27, 1:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence	61 min
May 27, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Hot Spring	60 min
May 27, 1:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jackson	65 min
May 27, 1:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, White	62 min
May 27, 1:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway	62 min
May 27, 2:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Perry, Saline	63 min
May 27, 2:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Woodruff	64 min
May 27, 2:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant, Pulaski	62 min
May 27, 2:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Dallas, Hot Spring	63 min
May 27, 2:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Lonoke, White	62 min
May 27, 2:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Prairie	65 min
May 27, 2:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jefferson	62 min
May 27, 3:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe	65 min
May 27, 3:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas	65 min
May 27, 3:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Ouachita	64 min
May 27, 4:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lincoln	65 min
May 27, 4:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha	61 min
May 27, 4:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun	64 min
May 27, 4:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley	63 min
May 27, 5:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Drew	64 min
May 27, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Searcy	50 min
May 27, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Stone	46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1997 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.