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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 13, 1997Franklin County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 5:32 AM CDT for Franklin County, Arkansas. It was in force for 33 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
Jun 13, 1997, 5:32 AM CDT (10:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1997, 6:05 AM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Franklin County, AR

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 13, 4:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 155 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 00:00Z on 1997-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2667 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1997-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2667 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1075 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.0

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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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 7:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter35 min
Jun 13, 5:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner, Perry50 min
Jun 13, 6:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1997Every 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.