Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 28, 1997, 12:42 PM CST for White County, Arkansas. It was in force for 33 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
- Feb 28, 1997, 12:42 PM CST (18:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 28, 1997, 1:15 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County White County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 12:46 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Searcy, 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 170 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1491 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLIT 281843 RRA SVRLIT ARC145-281915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1242 PM CST FRI FEB 28 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK AR HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS ...WHITE COUNTY AT 1241 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY DOPPLER RADAR 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF SEARCY MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH. LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... DEWEY AROUND 1240 PM CST ... RUSSELL AROUND 1245 PM CST ... SUNNYDALE AROUND 1245 PM CST ... VELVET RIDGE AROUND 1245 PM CST ... BRADFORD AROUND 1250 PM CST ... THE MAIN THREAT WITH THIS STORM IS DIME SIZE HAIL OR LARGER.STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS MAY ALSO BE PRODUCED IN AREAS AFFECTED BY THE STORM. REPORT ANY SEVtERE WEATHER TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS...AND ASK THAT THE REPORT BE FORWARDED TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. 32/25/28
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 12:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Woodruff | 49 min |
| Feb 28, 1:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, Jackson | 50 min |
| Feb 28, 1:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne | 32 min |
| Feb 28, 1:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope | 31 min |
| Feb 28, 1:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence | 35 min |
| Feb 28, 1:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Sharp | 61 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.